Rukan Saif

Rukan Saif is a Bangladeshi American poet and essayist from Los Angeles. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Rumpus, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Faultline, The Penn Review, phoebe, Furrow Magazine, ONE ART, and elsewhere. She is a reader for ONLY POEMS and just started ballet lessons. She lives in Boston.
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    “I have tried not writing about my women, my identity, etc., but that never works out. Instead I’m leaning into it, generating poems about deshi womanhood.”
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