Zubair Ibrahim Siddiqui is a queer poet who was born and raised in Karachi. He graduated from Bennington College in 2020 with a BA in Literature. His poems center around the shifting nature of identity, language, and the gravity of grief. His poems have previously appeared in Quarterly West. He currently works as a Writing Associate at the Habib University Writing Center in Karachi.
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