
Ayesha Raees
Ayesha Raees is a poet and artist who identifies as a hybrid, creating hybrid poetry through hybrid forms. Her work strongly revolves around issues of belonging and dislocation, G/god and spirituality, and beauty/cruelty, while possessing a strong agency for decolonial, anti-violence, and anti-erasure practices. She edits poetry at the Whiting Award-winning magazine The Margins and has been endorsed by the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, Kundiman, UNESCO, Brooklyn Poets, Millay Colony for the Arts, and others. Her first book, Coining a Wishing Tower, won the Broken River Prize and was published by Platypus and Radix, respectively. She is currently a Global Fellow at Habib University and is based in New York City and Karachi, Pakistan (and many other unsettled spaces).