Samina Najmi

Samina Najmi teaches multiethnic US literatures at California State University, Fresno. Her creative nonfiction has appeared in World Literature Today, The Rumpus, The Massachusetts Review, and elsewhere. Her collection of essays, Sing Me a Circle, won the 2024 Aurora Polaris Award in creative nonfiction and will be published by Trio House Press in 2025. Samina grew up in Pakistan and England and raised her now-adult children in Fresno.

4 October, 2024 • Samina Najmi

The Spark of Your Story, Ode to Aaron Bushnell

Honoring the memory of US serviceman Aaron Bushnell, who died for truth and justice in protest of US aid to Israel.