THE GHAZAL AS A HERALD
LOVE VS INTOLERANCE
Website: glasslyrepress.com
Ami Kaye
(she/her)
In addition to her love for music, dance, drama, and the literary arts, Ami Kaye is a visual art enthusiast and enjoys working in the watercolor medium. She strongly believes that the arts bring great meaning and richness to life. Ami is deeply appreciative of the extraordinary cultural programs offered by Chicago’s South Asia Institute, and is honored to have worked with SAI on their first anthology, Nur Melange: A Ghazal Anthology.
(Moderator)
Laura A. Ring is a poet, librarian, anthropologist, and native Vermonter. Her hybrid poetry chapbook Field Notes Recovered from the Expedition to Devil’s Peak won the 2020 Foster-Stahl chapbook competition, and her poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. She’s also a scholar of South Asia, and serves as the Southern Asian Studies Librarian at the University of Chicago. Her ethnography Zenana: Everyday Peace in a Karachi Apartment Building was published by Indiana University Press.
Laura A. Ring
(she/her)
Website: saminahaditabassum.com
Samina is an academic who has published both poetry and prose. Samina was born in Hyderabad, India and immigrated to Chicago with her family in the early 1970s. Her work centers on the immigrant experience as a Muslim American woman.
Samina Hadi-Tabassum
(She/her)
