Naseem Jamnia(هل هذا ملفك؟)

Naseem is a queer, nonbinary, Persian, trans, Chicagoan, writer, neuroscientist, baker, nerd, gamer.

Born to Iranian immigrants, I was raised in the North Side of Chicago, which I still call home even though I no longer live there. My writing has appeared in The Washington Post, Cosmopolitan, The Rumpus, The Writer's Chronicle, and other venues. I was the 2018 Bitch Media Fellow in Technology, a 2019 Lambda Literary Fellow in Young Adult Fiction, and a 2022 Otherwise Fellow, and was named the inaugural Samuel R. Delany Fellow. My debut novella, The Bruising of Qilwa, was released by Tachyon Publications in 2022 to critical praise.

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