Kazim Ali


Kazim Ali is an American poet, novelist, essayist, and professor. His most recent books are Inquisition and
All One's Blue. His honors include an Individual Excellence Award from the Ohio Arts Council. His poetry and essays have appeared in literary journals and magazines including The American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Barrow Street, Jubilat, The Iowa Review, West Branch and Massachusetts Review, and in The Best American Poetry 2007.

Life

Kazim Ali was born in the UK to parents of Indian descent, and raised in Canada and the United States. He received B.A. and M.A. degrees in English Literature from the University at Albany, and an MFA in creative writing from New York University.
In 2003, he co-founded the independent press Nightboat Books, served as its publisher from 2004 to 2007, and currently serves as a founding editor.
Ali is professor of literature and creative Writing at University of California, San Diego, and has taught in the Stonecoast MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of Southern Maine. Previously, he taught in the Liberal Arts Department of The Culinary Institute of America, at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania, at Monroe College, and at Oberlin College.

Awards and honors

Published works

PoetryThe Far Mosque The Fortieth Day Bright Felon Sky Ward All One's Blue Inquisition
FictionQuinn's Passage The Disappearance of Seth Wind Instrument Uncle Sharif's Life in Music The Secret Room
NonfictionOrange Alert: Essays on Poetry, Art and the Architecture of Silence Fasting for Ramadan: Notes on a Spiritual Practice Resident Alien: On Border-Crossing and the Undocumented Divine Anaïs Nin: An Unprofessional Study Silver Road: Essays, Maps & Calligraphies Northern Light: Power, Land, and the Memory of Water
TranslationsWater's Footfall, Poems of Sohrab Sepehri, translated by Kazim Ali and Mohammad Jafar Mahallati..The Oasis of Now, Poems of Sohrab Sepehri, translated from the Persian by Kazim Ali and Mohammad Jafar Mahallati..L'Amour by Marguerite Duras Abahn Sabana David by Marguerite Duras

Anthologies

  • ''Mad Heart Be Brave: Essays on the Poetry of Agha Shahid Ali''