Asiya Wadud

Asiya Wadud is the author of Crosslight for Youngbird (Nightboat Boks), day pulls down the sky/ a filament in gold leaf (written collaboratively with Okwui Okpokwasili) (Belladona*/ Danspace Project), Syncope (UDP) and No Knowledge Is Complete Until It Passes Through My Body (Nightboat Books). Asiya’s work has been supported by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Danspace Project, and New York Public Library, among others.. Her work has been presented at LMCC’s River To River: Four Voices, Mount Tremper Arts, and Danspace Project and recent writing appears in e-flux journal, BOMB Magazine, Social Text Journal, FENCE, Makhzin, and elsewhere. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, where she teaches poetry at Saint Ann’s School, Columbia University, and Pacific Northwest College of Art.