Zara JamshedZara Jamshed is a queer, trans, disabled Pakistani American poet and engineer from New York City. They are the winner of the Penrose Poetry Prize for LGBTQIA+ writers and have work published in The Arrow, Keppel Health Review, Kwi Collective Magazine, and the Protest Through Poetry Anthology. Zara is a 2022 Periplus Collective Fellow, an inaugural Kaleidoscope Writing Workshop participant with The Queer Ancestors Project and Still Here San Francisco, and was featured in Kearny Street Workshop's literary arts showcase at APAture 2021. Putting their engineering degree to use, Zara currently works to bring the economic and environmental benefits of solar energy to California's low-income renters. They live in Oakland, California. Read More Read Less