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Sara Afshar

Sara is a poet from Massachusetts. She works as a legal services immigration lawyer, specializing in cases related to unaccompanied child migrants and Afghans evacuated during the 2021 fall of government. Her work has appeared in journals in Sporklet, Michigan Quarterly Review, Poet Lore, Adroit Journal, and others. Sara is from a family of Iranian-Kashmiri refugees and has an MFA from the University of Michigan. She is a poetry editor at the Adroit Journal.

Pronouns • she/her/hers.

Select work by Sara available online
A War in Persian, Spork Press
Self-Disclosure [The Lead], The Adroit Journal
Uncle Anis Dies of COVID-19 at Ramzaan Hospital, Mixtape