Fatimah Asghar

Fatimah Asghar is an American poet, director and screenwriter who writes as a Pakistani, Kashmiri, Muslim American. Their poetry collection If They Come for Us follows a young woman coming of age without a mother or father, and their novel When We Were Sisters turns to fiction. Asghar co-created and wrote the Emmy-nominated webseries Brown Girls and received the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation in 2017.