Bassam Sidiki

Poet, Creative Nonfiction Writer

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Author's Bio

Bassam Sidiki is a Pakistani-American writer, scholar, editor, and critic. He creative nonfiction and poetry engage with migration, illness, philosophy, and the history of empire.

Publications & Prizes

Creative Nonfiction

Journals:

Atlas & Alice

Bangalore Review

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Missing Slate

Wordgathering: A Disability Journal

Poetry

Anthology:

Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine (Hippocrates Press, 2018)

Journals:

Aleph Review

COUNTERCLOCK

Jaggery

Papercuts

Wrongdoing Magazine

Prizes won:

2021 Hopwood Graduate Nonfiction Award, Commendation for 2018 Hippocrats Prize for Poetry and Medicine, Honorable Mention for 2012 Ora Mary Phelam Poetry Prize

Personal Favorites

Favorite authors:

Edward Said, Susan Sontag, Michael Ondaatje, Zadie Smith, Salman Rushdie, Toni Morisson, George Eliot, Kazuo Ishiguro, Eula Biss, Agha Shahid Ali, Cathy Park Hong, Orhan Pamuk, William Carlos Williams, Natalie Diaz, Mark Doty

More Information

Identifies as:

Asian American

Fluent in:

English, Urdu

Born in:

Pakistan

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Last update: Nov 18, 2021