Sanam Sheriff is a queer poet, artist, and educator from Bangalore, India. They have received support from the Thomas J. Watson Fellowship, Kundiman, Tin House, the Fine Arts Work Center, The Watering Hole, and The Seventh Wave. Sanam’s work has been published or is forthcoming in POETRY, Indiana Review, The Rumpus, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Academy of American Poets, The Adroit Journal, Washington Square Review, The Offing, Outlook India, Vinyl Poetry & Prose,  Black Warrior Review, 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.