Saima Afreen 
Author

Poems

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Übersetzung

A Couplet english

A Polka Dot Umbrella english

Revenge english

The Charpoy My Grandma Left english

Saima Afreen 
Author

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* , Kolkata, India
lives in: Hyderabad, India

Saima Afreen works as Deputy City Editor of the The New Indian Express.
Her poems have appeared in several Indian and international journals, including Indian LiteratureHCE ReviewBarely South ReviewThe Bellingham ReviewThe Stillwater ReviewThe McNeese ReviewThe Nassau ReviewThe Oklahoma ReviewStaghill Literary JournalThe Notre Dame ReviewHonest Ulsterman, and Existere, among others.

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She received 'Writer of the Year Award, 2016' from Nassau Community College (the State University of New York) and took part in several literary festivals and platforms such as Sahitya Akademi Poets’ Meet, Goa Arts and Literary Festival, TEDx VNR-VJIET, Prakriti Poetry Festival, Hyderabad Literary Festival, Betty June Silconas Poetry Festival (New Jersey), Helsinki Poetry Jam, Waterstones Bookstore Canterbury (England), and Dept of English, the University of Kent. In the autumn of 2017, she was awarded the Villa Sarkia Writers’ Residency (Finland), where she completed the manuscript of her debut, the poetry collection Sin of Semantics (Copper Coin 2019)



Publications
  • Sin of Semantics

    Poems

    Copper Coin, 2019

Awards
  • 2016 Writer of the Year Award, 2016 from Nassau Community College (the State University of New York)

  • 2017 Villa Sarkia Writers’ Residency (Finland)

  • 2019 Charles Wallace India Trust Fellowship