Adeeba Shahid Talukder

Adeeba Shahid Talukder is a Pakistani American poet, singer, and translator of Urdu and Persian poetry.

Literary Works

• What Is Not Beautiful (Glass Poetry Press, 2018)

• Shahr-e-jaanaan: The City of the Beloved (Tupelo Press, 2020)

Published in

Her work has appeared in Poem-A-Day, Gulf Coast, The Margins, Best American Poetry, PBS Frontline, and elsewhere. A Best of the Net finalist and Pushcart nominee, she holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Michigan and an Emerging Poets Fellowship from Poets House.

Awards

• Kundiman Poetry Prize 2020