Who

N.S. Ahmed is a first-generation Egyptian-American poet, playwright, fiction writer, and visual artist based in New York City. His work blends traditional Arabic storytelling, folktales, and songs with contemporary poetic and experimental forms to examine the lives, existential predicaments, and narratives of Egyptian and Egyptian-Americans. His writings have been featured or are forthcoming in publications such as Joyland, Passages North, AAWW's The Margins, The Offing, The Lumiere Review, Hyphen Magazine, and New York Public Library. As well, he has held performances and conversations at the KGB Bar, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, TEDx Talk, Nuyorican Poets Café, The Poet’s Passage, among many other areas throughout the United States and abroad. Currently, he is a CUNY Pipeline Fellow, a CLS Scholar, a Periplus Collective Fellow (mentored by Laura van den Berg), and a graduate with bachelor degrees in Creative Writing and Literature at the College of Staten Island. N.S. is a current Hertog Fellow (working with the author Madeleine Thien) and graduate candidate at Hunter College's MFA for fiction for the years 2022-2024. He is presently on work on a novel and short story collection.