Seelai Karzai

Seelai Karzai is a poet and educator from Queens, New York, whose writing centers the experiences of displaced and marginalized communities. Her work has appeared in Newtown Literary Journal and elsewhere. A member of the Afghan American Artists and Writers Association, she has earned fellowships from the Poetry Foundation and the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing for their Desert Nights, Rising Stars Writers Conference. Seelai is currently pursuing an MFA in poetry at the University of Oregon, where she has taught Introduction to Poetry and English Composition.