Sarah Husain is an activist/poet, born in New York City who grew up in Hong Kong, Sudan and Pakistan.She has been writing and organizing grassroots anti-violence community projects, linking communities of colour around issues of state violence, anti immigrant legislatives, post-911 Muslim Arab detentions, to anti-domestic violence work.Her written and performance poetry is concerned with identity, memory, nation, violence, cancer, bioterrorism and the female body.She has edited an anthology of contemporary North American Muslim women’s writings against war titled, Voices of Resistance: Muslim Women on War Faith and Sexuality, Seal Press June 2006.She has also been published in Breaking the Silence: South Asian Americans and Domestic Violence, Mizna, and SAMAR magazine. She is the recipient of Hedgebrook writer's residency, 2005. Currently she is teaching a poetry/prose workshop for Muslim women on violence in Manhattan.
