Sarah Husain was born in New York City and grew up in Hong Kong, Sudan and Pakistan. She is the editor of Voices of Resistance: Muslim Women on War, Faith and Sexuality, Seal Press, 2006. Her written and performance poetry is
concerned with memory, nation, violence, bioterrorism and the female body.As an activist and
artist she has worked with communities of color on issues of immigrant rights,
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access to public higher education and grassroots anti violence projects
in the Muslim, Arab and South Asian communities.
Over the recent years both her writing and activism has made
active interventions on current discourses of gender, sexuality, and violence as
it relates to "Muslim" women in the US. Her poetry career began
on the spoken word stages of Staten Island and Manhattan. She has read and
performed her work in venues across the country.
From Abrons Arts Center; Henry Street Settlement;
the Bowery Poetry Club; Brooklyn Museum;Lincoln Center;
the Lower East Side Tenement Museum; Nuyorican
Poet's Cafe; and Queens Museum of Art, among
other spaces. Her work has been supported by
the Joyce Foundation, Poets & Writers,
the Chicago Guild and South Asian
Women's Creative Collective and
she was a recipient of
Hedgebrook writer's residency.
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