Samiya Bashir

Samiya Bashir is a poet, writer, librettist, and performer whose work has been widely published and viewed from Berlin to the United States. Formerly the June Jordan Visiting Scholar at Columbia University, she has served as Visiting Professor of Poetry for the Helen Zell Writers Program at the University of Michigan. Bashir lives in Harlem. Her fourth collection, I Hope this Helps, was released by Nightboat Books to wide acclaim in 2025. Her honors include the Rome Prize in Literature, the Pushcart Prize, Oregon’s Arts & Culture Council Individual Artist Fellowship in Literature, plus numerous other awards, grants, fellowships, and residencies.