Fatimah asghar biography of alberta

          Fatimah Asghar has won the first-ever Carol Shields Prize for Fiction for their debut novel When We Were Sisters....

          Fatimah Asghar

          American poet

          Fatimah Asghar is a South Asian American poet, director and screenwriter.

          The winner of the first-ever Carol Shields Prize for Fiction is Fatimah Asghar for their debut novel “When We Were Sisters.”.

        1. The winner of the first-ever Carol Shields Prize for Fiction is Fatimah Asghar for their debut novel “When We Were Sisters.”.
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        3. Fatimah Asghar has won the first-ever Carol Shields Prize for Fiction for their debut novel When We Were Sisters.
        4. This documentary traces the life of Leilani Muir, the first person to file a lawsuit against the Alberta government for wrongful sterilization, and provides.
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          6. Co-creator and writer for the Emmy-nominated webseries Brown Girls, their work has appeared in Poetry,[1]Gulf Coast, BuzzFeed Reader, The Margins, The Offing, Academy of American Poets,[2] and other publications.

          Asghar is a member of the Dark Noise Collective[3] and a Kundiman Fellow.[4] They received the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation in 2017,[5] and has been featured on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list.[6]

          Early life

          Asghar's mother was from Jammu and Kashmir and fled with their family during Partition related violence.

          Their father was from Pakistan. Their parents immigrated to the United States. They both died by the time Asghar was five, leaving them an orphan.[7] "As an orphan, something I learned was that I could never take love