poet . editor . teacher

Atia Sattar is a Pakistani-American poet, teacher and editor whose creative work has been supported by PEN America, Anaphora Arts, the Writers Colony at Dairy Hollow, and Hypatia in the Woods. She is an alum of the PEN America Emerging Writers Workshop, Juniper Summer Institute, and the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop. Nominated for a Pushcart Prize (2023) and Best New Poets (2026), Atia’s poems have been published or are forthcoming in Lunch Ticket, Smartish Pace, Poetry Northwest, the Minnesota review, The Shore, Comstock Review, Rogue Agent, West Trade Review, Michigan Quarterly Review: Mixtape, SWWIM Every Day, and Cathexis Northwest Press. Atia’s personal and academic essays also appear in Lion’s Roar, Tricycle, Academe, and the Cambridge Quarterly for Health Care Ethics, among others. She is editor of the academic volume, How to Decolonize the Feminist and Queer Studies Classroom and co-editor of the forthcoming Feminist Formations special issue, “Feminist Visions and Struggles for a Gradeless University.” She currently teaches Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Southern California.