Hajjar Baban

Winner of the 2018 Rick Campbell Chapbook Award for What I know of the Mountains, Hajjar Baban is the author of Relative to Blood (Penmanship Books, 2018). A Pakistan-born Afghan Kurdish poet, she is currently studying Creative Writing, Arabic, and Persian at the University of Wisconsin - Madison through the First Wave Scholarship Program. She served as the 2017 Detroit Youth Poet Laureate and has work appearing in The Offing, New Delta Review, Foundry, and Asian American Writers’ Workshop, among others. She is a recent Best New Poets, Best of the Net, and Pushcart nominee. She spends most of her time avoiding running from herself.