Poems
“Qasida that might as well spend some time with these negro spirituals” and “Isn’t that the trouble with staring too hard at joy?” Mizna, Forthcoming, Winter 2022
“Bomb Pop”, Sleet Magazine, Forthcoming, Winter 2022
“Sunflower starter kit, repurposed from milk jugs”, “Unromanized Displacement”, and “Disposable Diaspora”, Terrain.org forthcoming Fall 2022
“Peanut Butter & Ayat-Al Kursi” republished, Oyate Hotanin Blog, 2022
“Fire Medicine” Environmental (In)justice in Mni Sóta Maḳoce (Minnesota), 2022
“Essential Worker Phenomenology”, Mizna Forthcoming summer 2022
“Peanut Butter & Ayat Al-Kursi”, Hennepin Review 2022
“Qasida For A Fasting Girl,” and “Surveillance Of Love” , Re-published, Wild Gods: The Ecstatic In Contemporary Poetry and Prose, New Rivers anthology, 2021
“Familiar Fruit”, re-published, Lyricality, 2021
“Why I Will Vaccinate” , Khôra, 2021
“Istikhara“, “Checklist”, Khôra, 2020
“Familiar Fruit“, Rain Taxi 2020
“Housing is a Human Right” ( audio poem), The Eco’s: Fall Sound Garden at Riverside Park, 2020
“In-Visibility”, American Muslim Futures virtual exhibit, re-publication 2020
” ‘Nafsi! Nafsi!’“, Khôra, 2020
“terrorist, boys, thugs in the hood” , “Dua of Middle Passage Survivor”, Poetry City U.S.A., 2020
“Of course, Black women invented navigation” The Drinking Gourd online journal, 2020
“We Shouldn’t Have To Say”, Nicollet Lantern poem featured on Compassion San Antonio Blog, 2020
“Hummingbird Heart” The Drinking Gourd online journal, 2020
Select Poems re-published in Wisdom Ways, 2019
“Mashallah” Saint Paul Almanac, 2019
“[Bean Pie, Sweet Potato Pie, Buttermilk Pie]”, About Place Journal, 2019
“Surveillance of Blunt Ash” , Cracked Walnut Anthology: After the Equinox, 2019
“Performative Joy”, Midway Journal, 2019
“The Art of Burning”, Juked, 2018
“Dhul-Hajjah Pastoral”, re-published by Muslim Women Speak, 2018
“In-Visibility”, Bird’s Thumb, 2018
“Dhul-Hajjah Pastoral”, published along the poetry trail of the Three Rivers Park District.
“Qasida for the creator of bean pies”, “Redacted Security”, and “Bean (pyrotechnics)” Puerto del Sol, 2018
“Surveillance of Joy”, “Joy Inside my Tears”, “Surveillance Rakats” Boog City, The Portable Boog Reader 11: Minneapolis-St. Paul, N.Y.C”, 2018
“Surveillance of Office Micro-Aggression”, Cosmonauts Avenue, 2018
“Qasida for a Fasting Girl”, published by Muslim Women Speak, 2018
“Bean (Pie)”, re-published, WHISKED: Cooking up Community 2018
“Surveillance of Love”, published by Paper Darts, 2018
“Allahu Akbar”, published by AtlanticRock, 2018
“Things I found caught in my mother’s hijab”, published in Knockout , 2017
“Yes” and ” To the unborn generation”, published in Mizna, 2017
“I know why the caged Muadhin sings” Republished by Helen Literary Magazine, 2017
“and, Michigan” published in Red Bird Chapbook
“Bean (Pie)” and “I know why the caged Muadhin sings” published in Blue Minaret,2016
“I’m gonna build you a house” published by Alyss Lit Mag , 2016
“On(Black(Muslim(Women)))Americanism” and “Coded Language” published in Mizna,2016
“Michigan, 1998” published in Qu Literary Magazine, 2016
“Bean Pie” and “No, I don’t trust the sky” published in The Fem, 2016
“Say her name” published in For Harriet, 2015
“Mujahid” published in the Mizna Journal, 2013
“The road to survival” and “Last night the sky”(online) published in Bluestem Magazine, 2012
“City” published in Matter Press Journal, 2012
“Survivor’s Guilt” published in Black Fox Literary Magazine, 2012
“Dummy” published in The Reed Journal of Existentialism, 2012
“Boy” published in The Quarry Literary and Visual Arts Magazine, 2012
Fiction
“Uncomplicated Rules”, Parhelion, 2022
“Odd Jobs” and “Three Little Birds”, About Place Journal 2022
“The Customer is Always White” Prose Online, forthcoming 2022
“Domestic” Paranoid Tree, forthcoming summer 2022
“Waste Not, Want Not “, Winter Tangerine, 2018
“Zainab, 27” published in Paper Darts, 2018
“Transit” published in Paper Darts, 2016
“The Heroes” published in Blue Minaret 2016
Essays and Articles
“Smells of the Present Moment”, Walker Art Center – Mn Artists, 2020
“It takes a village event series disrupt neighborhood shootings with Black joy”, Insight News, 2020
“Pure Cruelty: Deporting COVID-19 Victims”, Insight News, 2020
” Ben Crump: ‘They are trying to Kill George Floyd a Second Time’ “, Insight News, 2020
“I Want Us to Survive the Virus”, A Moment of Silence: 50 Black MN Voices in a Historical Moment of Transformation ( Online Anthology ), 2020
“The Environment in Context”, Pollen, 2019
“These Stories Need to Be Told: An Interview with Kathryn Haddad and Nahid Khan”, Mizna 2019
“Killing Us Softly”, Minnesota Women’s Press, 2018
“Intersectional Bribes and the Cost of Poetry” Essay in How Dare We! Write: A Multicultural Creative Writing Discourse 2017
“Breaking The Silence: How Maya Washington Is Redefining Inclusion And Protest In The Arts” Insight News 2016
“Inheritance” published in Switchback 2015
“North Minneapolis residents fight out-of-state investors, poor maintenance” 2014
“More than art: FLOW Northside Arts Crawl promotes healthy eating” 2014
“Northside forum builds alliances to bolster digital literacy” 2014
Books
“Get Involved in a Book Club”, forthcoming, Capstone Press, January 2022
Awards
Winner, 2022 University of St. Thomas’ Environmental (In)justice in Mni Sóta Maḳoce (Minnesota) contest
Winner of a 2018 Twin Cities Media Alliance ” Our Space is Spoken For” Fellowship
Winner of a 2017 Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative grant
Winner of a 2016-2017 Minnesota Center for Book Arts Mentorship Fellowship.
Selected in 2016 by the City of Minneapolis and Artist Blessing Hancock to create poems that will be incorporated into a large scale public art project in Downtown Minneapolis.
2015-2016 Winner of the Loft Literary Mentor Series Award in poetry
2012 Nominee of the AWP Intro Journal Awards in poetry by the Saint Olaf English Department
Sagirah Shahid 