An Evening with Poet Samiya Bashir

AN EVENING WITH POET SAMIYA BASHIR

Samiya Bashir holds a BA from the University of California, Berkeley, where she served as Poet Laureate, and an MFA from the University of Michigan, where she received two Hopwood Poetry Awards. In October 2017 she was awarded the Regional Arts & Culture Council’s Individual Artist Fellowship in Literature She has been the recipient of numerous other awards, grants, fellowships, and residencies, and is a founding organizer of Fire & Ink, an advocacy organization and writer’s festival for LGBT writers of African descent. ****Books will be available for purchase at the event courtesy of the UH Manoa Bookstore

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English, Mānoa Campus

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Shawna Ryan, (808) 956-3071, slryan@hawaii.edu

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