Sarah Ahmad

Sarah Ahmad was born in Delhi and grew up across the Indian subcontinent. She is a PhD candidate in literature where she works on the house as a critical site for contesting and inscribing the aesthetics of modernity and imperialism in the twentieth century, looking transnationally at literature, urbanization and planning, and architecture as the three sites for this emergence. Her creative work also circles around space, architecture, homes, and a poetics of the domestic. She has edited and worked for Guernica, Poetry, and Conjunctions, and her work can be found in Latin American Literature Today, the minnesota review, The Margins, Gulf Coast, and Action, Spectacle amongst other places.