Naseem Jamnia
Photo credit: Jeramie Lu. Reprint of photo is permitted for publicity purposes.
50-word Bio
Naseem Jamnia (they/them) is a Persian-Chicagoan, former scientist, and author of The Bruising of Qilwa (August 2022, Tachyon Publications). They've received fellowships from Bitch Media, Lambda Literary, Otherwise, and CatStone Books, and are the managing editor at Sword & Kettle Press. Find out at more at www.naseemwrites.com or on Twitter/Instagram @jamsternazzy.
< 100-word Bio
Naseem Jamnia (they/them) is a Persian-Chicagoan, former scientist, and fiction MFA graduate from the University of Nevada, Reno. Their work has appeared in The Washington Post, Bitch Media, Cosmopolitan, The Rumpus, The Writer's Chronicle, and other venues. A Lambda Literary, Otherwise, and the inaugural Samuel R. Delany Fellow, Naseem is the managing editor at Sword & Kettle Press, and their debut novella, The Bruising of Qilwa, will be released from Tachyon Publications in 2022. Find out at more at www.naseemwrites.com or on Twitter/Instagram @jamsternazzy.
< 200-word Bio
A former neuroscientist and recent MFA graduate from the University of Nevada, Reno, Naseem Jamnia’s (they/them) work has appeared in The Washington Post, Cosmopolitan, The Rumpus, The Writer's Chronicle, and other venues. They were the 2018 Bitch Media Fellow in Technology, a 2019 Lambda Literary Fellow in Young Adult Fiction, and a 2022 Otherwise Fellow, and they were named the inaugural Samuel R. Delany Fellow from CatStone Books. In addition to co-writing the academic text Positive Interactions with At-Risk Children (Routledge, 2019), their work has been included in the Lambda Literary EMERGE anthology (2020) and We Made Uranium! And Other True Stories from the University of Chicago’s Extraordinary Scavenger Hunt (University of Chicago, 2019). Their debut novella, The Bruising of Qilwa, will be released by Tachyon Publications in August 2022. Naseem is also the managing editor at Sword & Kettle Press, a tiny independent publishing house of inclusive feminist speculative fiction, and the former managing editor at Sidequest.zone, an independent gaming criticism website. A Persian-Chicagoan and child to Iranian immigrants, Naseem now lives in Reno with their husband, dog, and two cats. Find out at more at www.naseemwrites.com or on Twitter/Instagram @jamsternazzy.
Social links
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Facebook: www.facebook.com/naseemjamnia
Photo credit: Jeramie Lu. Reprint of photo is permitted for publicity purposes.
Book links forthcoming.
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Photos of Naseem by Jennie Kaplan, 2018, unless otherwise stated