Dilruba Ahmed

Dilruba Ahmed 's debut book, Dhaka Dust , won the Bakeless Prize for Poetry awarded by the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review , Blackbird, Kenyon Review, New England Review, Ploughshares and Poetry. Her poems have also been anthologized in The Best American Poetry 2019 , Halal If You Hear Me , Literature: The Human Experience , Indivisible: An Anthology of Contemporary South Asian American Poetry , and elsewhere. Ahmed is the recipient of The...See more

Dilruba Ahmed 's debut book, Dhaka Dust , won the Bakeless Prize for Poetry awarded by the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review , Blackbird, Kenyon Review, New England Review, Ploughshares and Poetry. Her poems have also been anthologized in The Best American Poetry 2019 , Halal If You Hear Me , Literature: The Human Experience , Indivisible: An Anthology of Contemporary South Asian American Poetry , and elsewhere. Ahmed is the recipient of The Florida Review' s Editors' Award, a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Memorial Prize, and the Katharine Bakeless Nason Fellowship in Poetry awarded by the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. See less