Samina Najmi

Samina Najmi is a scholar of race, gender, and war in multiethnic American literature who teaches at California State University, Fresno. She began writing personal essays and memoir in 2011. Her memoir-in-essays, Sing Me a Circle, won the 2024 Aurora Polaris Prize and was published by Trio House Press in October 2025. Her essay "Abdul" won Map Literary's 2012 nonfiction prize.