Rabha Ashry

Rabha Ashry is Egyptian, by way of Abu Dhabi, and based in Chicago. She has a BA from NYU Abu Dhabi, and an MFA in writing from School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The recipient of the Brunel International African Poetry Prize 2020, she is the author of chapbooks Loving the Alien (Black Sunflowers Poetry Press, 2021) and Grief and Ecstasy (African Poetry Book Fund, 2023). Her work has been published in Poetry London, Postscript Magazine, and Another Chicago Magazine. She currently teaches poetry and essay writing while writing about home, exile, and living between languages.