MFA Creative Writing
Faculty and Staff
Dilruba Ahmed
Dahmed@chatham.edu
Lecturer
Hometown : Swarthmore, PA
Joined Chatham : 2010
Academic Areas of Interest
Poetry, South Asian American writing, Asian American writing, immigrant and first-generation literature
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Biography
Dilruba Ahmed is the author of DHAKA DUST (Graywolf, 2011), winner of the 2010 Bakeless Literary Prize for poetry, selected by Arthur Sze and awarded by the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. Her poetry has appeared in Cream City Review, New England Review, New Orleans Review, The Normal School, and Pebble Lake Review. Her work also appears in Indivisible: Contemporary South Asian American Poetry. A writer with roots in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Bangladesh, Ahmed holds BPhil and MAT degrees from the University of Pittsburgh and an MFA from Warren Wilson College. She currently lives in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, with her husband and son. Photo credit: Mike Drzal
Education
- MFA, Poetry, Warren Wilson College (Swannanoa, NC), 2009
- MAT, Instruction and Learning, University of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, PA), 1997
- BPhil, English Writing/Poetry, University of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, PA), 1996
Publications
Awards
- Bakeless Poetry Prize (Bread Loaf Writers' Conference/Graywolf Press)
- Writers’ Conferences & Centers (WC&C) Scholarship, AWP