Sagirah Shahid

Sagirah Shahid is a pushcart prize nominated Black Muslim poet from Minneapolis, MN. Her poetry and prose are published in Mizna, Winter Tangerine, Prose Online, Juked, About Place Journal and elsewhere. Sagirah is a 2015-2016 winner of the Loft Literary Center’s Mentor Series Award in poetry and a 2016-2017 recipient of a Minnesota Center for Books/Jerome Foundation Book Arts Mentorship award; in 2016 Sagirah’s poems were commissioned by the City of Minneapolis’ Nicollet Lanterns public arts project to be transformed into illuminated sculptural lanterns along downtown Minneapolis’ Nicollet Mall. Sagirah is a poetry editor for Overtly Lit.