Bio

Rabha Ashry is Egyptian, by way of Abu Dhabi, and based in Chicago. She has a Bachelor of Arts from New York University Abu Dhabi, and a Master of Fine Arts in Writing from School of the Arts Institute of Chicago. The recipient of the Brunel International African Poetry Prize in 2020, she is the author of chapbooks “Loving the Alien” and “Grief and Ecstasy”, published in 2021 and 2023. Her debut poetry manuscript received an honorable mention from the African Poetry Book Fund for the Sillerman Prize. Her work has been published in Air/Light, Poetry London, and Another Chicago Magazine, among others. Her nonfiction work has been named finalist for Black Warrior Review Summer Contest, and shortlisted for 2025 Literary Awards with Santa Fe Writers Project. She has completed residencies at Oxbow School of Art and Ragdale. She currently teaches poetry and essay writing at DePaul University while writing about home, exile, the diaspora, and living between languages.