North Stage
(On S. Dearborn St., just south of Ida B. Wells Dr.)
Sunday 9/13, 5pm

Poet, screenwriter, educator, and performer, Fatimah Asghar is the South-Asian American Muslim author of Daughter of the Mountains, If They Come For Us, When We Were Sisters, and the chapbook After. Asghar is the writer and co-creator of Brown Girls, an Emmy-nominated web series. They are a member of the Dark Noise Collective and a Kundiman Fellow. They were longlisted for the National Book Award, Aspen Words Literary Prize, and the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize. Winner of the Inaugural Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, Asghar is a recipient of the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship.