About
A. Shaikh is a queer immigrant poet raised in the tangerine summers of Texas. They are the 2021 winner of THE BOILER PRIZE and MAYDAY Poetry Prize, an inaugural fellow of the Strange Tools Writer's Workshop, and an Aquarius who loves the color blue. Their work resides somewhere in between desire and disillusionment. They are a recent graduate of Kenyon College and a current MFA candidate in poetry at the University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers’ Program. You can find their poems in Underblong, Poets.org and elsewhere. Their internet thoughts reside @apricotpoet. When not online, A. Shaikh is probably daydreaming and/or giving their partner a kiss.
