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Shadab Zeest Hashmi's Baker of Tarifa, a book based on the history of

interfaith tolerance in Al Andalus, won the 2011 San Diego Book Award for 

poetry. Her poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize multiple 

times, and have been translated into Spanish and Urdu. She is the winner 

of the Nazim Hikmet Poetry Prize and her work has appeared in Poetry 

International, The Cortland Review, Vallum, Nimrod, Atlanta Review, The Bitter 

Oleander, Drunken Boat, RHINO, Journal of Postcolonial Writings, Spillway, 

The Adirondack Review, and is forthcoming in Prairie Schooner and Wasafiri, 

among other journals. She represents Pakistan on the website UniVerse: A 

United Nations of Poetry, and has taught in the MFA program at San Diego State 

University as a writer-in-residence. She is a guest columnist for 3 Quarks Daily. 

Kohl and Chalk is her new book of poems.