Rushda Rafeek

Rushda Rafeek is an acclaimed poet who was nominated for the Pushcart Prize in 2017 and 2018, became a finalist for the Wasafiri New Writing Prize in 2017, and was featured in Best Asian Poetry in 2021 by Kitaab International in Singapore. She won the Nazim Hikmet Poetry Prize in 2018 and had her poem included in the 2023 anthology 'We Call to the Eye & the Night.' Her chapbook manuscript was a finalist for the Glass Chapbook Series in 2020-2021. She is also the Finalist of the Brooklyn Poets Fellowship Summer 2025.