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Dilruba Ahmed loves eating gluten-free desserts, shoveling mulch, walking among trees, and drinking coffee (but not necessarily at the same time).

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Dilruba Ahmed is the author of Bring Now the Angels (Pitt Poetry Series, 2020), with poems featured in New York Times Magazine, The Slowdown, and Poetry Unbound with Pádraig Ó Tuama.  Her debut book of poetry, Dhaka Dust (Graywolf Press), won the Bakeless Prize.  Her poems have appeared in Kenyon Review, New England Review, and Ploughshares.  Her poems have also been anthologized in The Best American Poetry 2019 (Scribner), New Moons: Contemporary Writing by North American Muslims (Red Hen), Literature: The Human Experience (Bedford/St. Martin’s) and elsewhere.  Ahmed is the recipient of The Florida Review’s Editors’ Award, a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Memorial Prize, and the Katharine Bakeless Nason Fellowship in Poetry awarded by the Bread Loaf Writers Conference. She holds degrees from the University of Pittsburgh and Warren Wilson College’s MFA Program for Writers. Formerly a project manager with the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Ahmed has taught with Chatham University’s MFA Program, Hugo House, Swarthmore College, and in workshops across the U.S. In January 2021, Ahmed joined the faculty at Warren Wilson College’s MFA Program for Writers.