Jaia Hamid Bashir is the author of The Afterlife of Sweetness (Ohio State University Press, 2026) and the chapbook Desire/Halves (Nine Syllables, 2024). The daughter of Pakistani artists, she has published poetry in POETRY Magazine, The American Poetry Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Narrative, and journals across the United States and internationally.  In addition, she has published in Black Warrior Review and is forthcoming in Nimrod Journal.  She is the winner of the Zócalo Public Square Poetry Prize and the Ralph Hamilton Editors’ Prize from Rhino Poetry. She has been honored by the Gloria Anzaldúa Poetry Prize, the Leonard Cohen Poetry Prize, and the Best of the Net award. A graduate of Columbia University, she lives in Utah with her husband.