Maryam Ivette Parhizkar
Yale University
Graduate Student
Maryam Ivette Parhizkar is a poet, scholar, occasional musician and author of the chapbooks Pull: a ballad (The Operating System, 2014) and As For the Future (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, 2016). Her recent work has appeared in Amerarcana/Shuffle Boil, The Daily Gramma, The Recluse, Social Text Online, and Poem-a-Day. She is a Ph.D. candidate in American Studies and African American Studies at Yale University, where studies institutional histories of empire, Black and brown performance and poetic practices of redress within them, and their reimaginings of social collectivity. Born and raised in Houston, Texas by Iranian and Salvadoran immigrants, she lives in Jersey City, New Jersey. She is on the editorial board of Litmus Press.