Jaz Sufi

Jaz Sufi (she/hers) is a queer Iranian-American poet and arts educator. She is a Kundiman fellow, a National Poetry Slam finalist, and the former executive director of the Berkeley Slam, the longest running poetry slam on the West Coast. She was the 2015 Berkeley Grand Slam Champ, and went on to place third in the nation at the 2015 National Poetry Slam. She has toured internationally, from Berlin to the Scottish Rites Center to performing alongside the Townsend Opera. Her work has been published or is upcoming in the Adroit Journal, AGNI, Black Warrior Review, Colorado Review, Muzzle, and elsewhere. She lives between the Bay Area and Brooklyn with her dog, Apollo.