Reading Series - Sanam Sheriff
The Creative Writing Department is proud to host Bryn Mawr alum and former visiting assistant professor Sanam Sheriff for a public reading and discussion. All are welcome!
Sanam Sheriff is a queer poet, performer, and educator from Bangalore, India. Their debut poetry collection HUM (University of Nebraska Press, 2026) won the Backwaters Prize in Poetry. Currently, Sanam teaches creative writing at Haverford College. Her work has been published in Poetry Magazine, Poem-a-Day, The Rumpus, Virginia Quarterly Review, Poetry Daily, Outlook India, and elsewhere. Sanam is a Kundiman fellow, a Kenyon Review Writer's Workshop Scholar, and a recipient of the Thomas J. Watson fellowship. They hold an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis and served as an assistant professor of creative writing at Bryn Mawr College from 2022-2025. Sanam lives in Philadelphia, where she curates The Poets' Studio at Twelve Gates Arts.
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