American · b. 1989
Fatimah Asghar writes about Muslim American identity, queerness, and the aftermath of partition. The poet and screenwriter grew up an orphan in the United States, experiences that inform her debut novel "When We Were Sisters," which follows three orphaned siblings navigating childhood without adults. Asghar co-created the Emmy-nominated web series "Brown Girls" and published the poetry collection "If They Come for Us." Her work insists on the complexity of hyphenated identity without simplifying its contradictions.