Profile

Sahar Muradi is an NYC-based poet, actor, educator, and snowboarder. She is the author of the chapbook [ G A T E S ] (Black Lawrence Press) and the chaplet A Garden Beyond My Hand (*Belladonna), co-author of A Ritual in X Movements (Montez Press), and co-editor of One Story, Thirty Stories: An Anthology of Contemporary Afghan American Literature (University of Arkansas Press). Sahar is a founding member of the Afghan American Artists and Writers Association and has been the recipient of the Stacy Doris Memorial Poetry Award, the Himan Brown Poetry Award, and a Kundiman Poetry Fellowship, among others. She has an MFA in poetry from Brooklyn College, an MPA in international development from NYU, and a BA in creative writing from Hampshire College. Sahar dearly believes in the bottom of the rice pot.