RUKAN SAIF
poet & essayist


rukansaif@gmail.com
@rukansaif



Selected Works
  1. “The Morning of the Wedding” — wildness
  2. “Harami Ghazal” — Shō Poetry Sita Martin Prize Runner-Up * 
  3. Instructions for Banno Review — The Rumpus
  4. “Horticulture Ghazal in Conversation with My Ancestors” —  Hayden’s Ferry Review *†
  5. “Self-Portrait as My Sister, The Moon” — faultline *
  6. “Haibun for when my father does yoga for the first time” — phoebe *


* in print
† nominated for Puschart Prize

RUKAN SAIF is a poet from Los Angeles. Her work has appeared in wildness, The Rumpus, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and elsewhere. She is a Kundiman Fellow, a Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize nominee, and was shortlisted for The Capilano Review’s Writing Contest. Her work has received support from Brooklyn Poets and The Juniper Institute. She lives in Baltimore.







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