Jaia Hamid Bashir, born to Pakistani immigrant artists, is the author of the poetry collection The Afterlife of Sweetness (Ohio State University Press, 2026) and the chapbook Desire/Halves (Nine Syllables, 2024). The winner of the 2024 Charles B. Wheeler Prize and the Zócalo Public Square Poetry Prize, she holds an MFA from Columbia University and lives in Utah.
WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:
- The Brute, poetry, in Narrative Backstage