Kazim Ali was born in the UK to parents of Indian descent. With his family he emigrated to Canada and then the US. He was raised in an Islamic household, and attended the University at Albany, receiving a BA and an MA in English. Following his graduation, Kazim worked full time as an organizer for a state-wide organization devoted to advocating for greater access to public higher education, funding for the SUNY system, and increased need-based grant aid for students.
Following four years of full time organizing and political activity, Kazim returned to his home in the Western New York area and taught in the English Department of Monroe Community College and served as a writer-in-residence at the Just Buffalo Literary Center.
Kazim Ali attended NYU and received a Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing. He has taught writing and literature for four years in the Liberal Arts Department of The Culinary Institute of America, and at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania. He currently teaches at Oberlin College and in the University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast MFA program. He’s also taught in various summer programs, including the Kundiman Retreat for Asian American Poets and will be on the faculty of the 2007 Frost Place Festival of Poetry.
Kazim Ali's work has been published in various national journals including jubilat, Barrow Street, The American Poetry Review, in Best American Poetry 2007. His first book of poetry The Far Mosque was published by Alice James Books in 2005. Kazim is also the author of a novel, Quinn’s Passage, published by BlazeVox Books. He is founding editor of Nightboat Books.
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For more about Kazim Ali visit: http://www.kazimali.com
For video clips of Kazim Ali reading poems visit: http://youtube.com/profile?user=PoetryisNews
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