Sanam Sheriff is a queer poet, artist, and educator from Bangalore, India. They have received support from the Thomas J. Watson Fellowship, Kundiman, The Watering Hole, 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, Washington Square Review, The Offing, Outlook India, 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. They currently serve as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Bryn Mawr College where they organize the Reading Series. Sanam is working, with much love, on their debut poetry collection.