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 work has been published or is forthcoming in Poetry London, Postscript Magazine, and Another Chicago Magazine, among others. She currently teaches poetry and essay writing at DePaul University while writing about home, exile, the diaspora, and living between languages.