Huma Sheikh was born in a war-torn region of Kashmir. The recipient of fellowships from Callaloo (Brown University), William Joiner Institute (UMass Boston), University of Massachusetts at Amherst, East-West Center (Hawaii), she has studied literary nonfiction with Christina Thompson at Harvard.
She was the assistant online editor for the Southeast Review, fiction screener for Orison Books, editor for Journal on Kashmiri Literature and Diasporic Writing, and stringer and reporter for Plain Talk weekly and Ka Leo newspapers in South Dakota and Hawaii.
After graduating with a degree in journalism, Huma worked for United News of India, Hindustan Times, Press Trust of India, and Xinhua News in Beijing, China. She has received a Bachelor in Arts from University of Kashmir and Asia Pacific Leadership from the University of Hawaii, a Masters in Journalism and Communication Studies from University of South Dakota, a Masters in English Literature from Texas A&M University, a Masters in Creative Writing from Long Island University (Brooklyn), and a PhD in English from Florida State University.
The winner of the Adam M. Johnson Fellowship, Charles Gordone Award, the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses chose Huma’s poem “My Legs are Salwar Starchy” to appear on the list of reads for Arab American Heritage Month. Her Poetry Book was shortlisted for Our Own Chapbook Prize by Radix Media.
Huma’s work has appeared in Kenyon Review, Consequence Magazine, Prism International, Cincinnati Review, Arrowsmith, Consequence, Rumpus, Journal and others.
Huma has taught as Visiting Teaching Faculty in the Department of English at Florida State University. She’s currently at work on her memoir and poetry book.
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