Fatimah Asghar
Fatimah Asghar, author of If They Come for Us and When We Were Sisters, is a poet, filmmaker, educator, and performer. Their literary work has been longlisted for the National Book Award and won the Carol Shields Award. They are the writer and co-creator of Brown Girls, an Emmy-nominated web series that highlights friendships between women of colour.
Along with Safia Elhillo, they edited Halal If You Hear Me, an anthology that celebrates Muslim writers who are also women, queer, gender-nonconforming, and/or trans. They also were a writer and co producer on Ms. Marvel on Disney +, and wrote Episode 5, 'Time and Again'.
