Rasma Haidri’s poems and essays appear in Action Spectacle, Under the Radar, Prairie Schooner, Sycamore Review, and Fourth Genre, among other journals and anthologies in the US, UK, Norway, India, Hong Kong, and UAE. She is the author of a poetry collection, As If Anything Can Happen, and three textbooks. Recognitions for her writing include the Southern Women Writers creative non-fiction award, the Wisconsin Academy of Arts, Letters & Science poetry award, Western Michigan University’s Third Coast Conference prize for fiction, NewVerseNews’ Best of the Net nomination, Riddled with Arrow’s Ars Poetica prize, and EasyStreet magazine’s Great American Sentence award. Rasma reads for the Baltic Residency and PRISM and holds an M.Sc. in reading education from the University of Wisconsin and an MFA in poetry and memoir from the University of British Columbia. A first-generation South Asian and second-generation Norwegian-American, Rasma grew up in Detroit, Miami, Manhattan, and Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and later lived in Wisconsin, France, Hawaii, and Norway, where she now makes her home on a seacoast island. Visit her at www.rasma.org.