Zohra Saed
Website: http://zohrasaed.wordpress.com/
Email Address: Undisclosed
Editor/Consultant: Zohra Saed
Country: Afghanista/Usa
Type: Blog
Description: Zohra Saed is a Brooklyn based Afghan poet. Zohra received her MFA at Brooklyn College, where she studied with Julie Agoos, Lou Asekoff and Ron Padgett. Her poetry and essays have been published in numerous anthologies and journals. Some publications include: This Day: Diaries of American Women Ed. Joni B. Cole, Rebecca Joffrey, and B.K. Rakhra (2002); Chosen Shore: Stories of Immigrants (Life History) Ellen Alexander Conley (U. California Press: 2004); Shattering the Stereotypes: Muslim Women Speak out Ed. Fawzia Afzal Khan (Olive Branch Press: 2005); Cut Loose Ed. Nan Bauer-Maglin (Rutgers U. Press: 2006); Voices of Resistance: Muslim Women on War, Faith and Sexuality Ed. Sarah Hussein (Seal Press: 2006). Most recently in Cheers to Muses: Contemporary Works by Asian American Women Ed. Asian American Women Artists’ Association (AAWAA: 2007); Gallerie International Journal: Afghanistan Ed. Bina Sarkar (India: 2009); and in Speaking for Herself: Asian Women’s Writings (Penguin India Books: 2009). She has performed as part of the cast of the legendary theater director Ping Chong’s Undesirable Elements in 2000 and in 2007, where the ensemble caste performed at the first National Asian American Theater Festival. The full script was published in: New York Theater Review 2008 Ed. Brook Stowe.
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Website: http://zohrasaed.wordpress.com/
Email Address: Undisclosed
Editor/Consultant: Zohra Saed
Country: Afghanista/Usa
Type: Blog
Description: Zohra Saed is a Brooklyn based Afghan poet. Zohra received her MFA at Brooklyn College, where she studied with Julie Agoos, Lou Asekoff and Ron Padgett. Her poetry and essays have been published in numerous anthologies and journals. Some publications include: This Day: Diaries of American Women Ed. Joni B. Cole, Rebecca Joffrey, and B.K. Rakhra (2002); Chosen Shore: Stories of Immigrants (Life History) Ellen Alexander Conley (U. California Press: 2004); Shattering the Stereotypes: Muslim Women Speak out Ed. Fawzia Afzal Khan (Olive Branch Press: 2005); Cut Loose Ed. Nan Bauer-Maglin (Rutgers U. Press: 2006); Voices of Resistance: Muslim Women on War, Faith and Sexuality Ed. Sarah Hussein (Seal Press: 2006). Most recently in Cheers to Muses: Contemporary Works by Asian American Women Ed. Asian American Women Artists’ Association (AAWAA: 2007); Gallerie International Journal: Afghanistan Ed. Bina Sarkar (India: 2009); and in Speaking for Herself: Asian Women’s Writings (Penguin India Books: 2009). She has performed as part of the cast of the legendary theater director Ping Chong’s Undesirable Elements in 2000 and in 2007, where the ensemble caste performed at the first National Asian American Theater Festival. The full script was published in: New York Theater Review 2008 Ed. Brook Stowe.
(Directory entry)
