SAGIRAH SHAHID is an African American Muslim poet, editor, arts administrator, and performance artist from Minneapolis, MN.  She is a recipient of awards, fellowship, and residencies  from the Loft Literary Center, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Twin Cities Media Alliance,  Shangri La Museum of Islamic Art and Muslim Advocates,  Strive Publishing,  Wisdom Ways, Nicollet Lanterns, and 826 MSP. Sagirah’s prose and poetry have been published by Mizna, The Drinking Gourd, Insight News, Winter Tangerine, Pollen, Blue Minaret, Puerto Del Sol, Paper Darts, Juked,  Walker Art Center, About Place Journal,  the Saint Paul Almanac, and elsewhere. Her work is also included in the following Anthologies: A Moment of Silence: 50+ Black Voices in a Moment of Transformation, After the Equinox: A Cracked Walnut Anthology, Whisked: Cooking Up Community,  How Dare We! Write and Wild Gods: The Ecstatic in Contemporary Poetry and Prose.  A silk-tongued performer and conceptual installation artist, Sagirah has performed her poetry along side the Minnesota Orchestra, Pop Musical Duo Faarrow, and in collaboration with the late Tarik Rasouli’s Radical Islam. Sagirah’s conceptual art centers participatory community spaces that offer healing, affirmation, and resistance against oppressive ideologies and actions,  those projects include:  A Personal Library of In-Visibility, Qasida Ilhan: A Communal Poem of Solidarity in 99 Parts, Particles  a print series in collaboration with Austin Nash, and The Sunflower Room. In 2021 Sagirah was co-curator of the City of Saint Paul’s Sidewalk Poetry project and is a writer-in-residence with the Write Like Us program. Sagirah’s children’s activity book Get Involved in a Book Club!  is available at Capstone press. Sagirah is a poetry editor with Overtly Lit.

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