Sanam Sheriff is a queer poet, artist, and educator from Bangalore, India. They have received support from the Thomas J. Watson Fellowship, The Watering Hole, Pink Door, The Seventh Wave, and are a Pushcart Prize Nominee. Sanam’s work has been published in Indiana Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Academy of American Poets, The Adroit Journal, The Offing, Vinyl Poetry & Prose,  Black Warrior Review, The Kweli Journal, Shade Literary Arts, DWB, and elsewhere. Sanam holds an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis. She currently serves as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Bryn Mawr College where she organizes the Reading Series. Sanam is working, with much love, on her debut poetry collection.