Saima Afreen is a poet, journalist, and essayist. Her poems have appeared in Sahitya Akademi journal(s), HCE Review, Barely South Review, The Bellingham Review, The Roanoke Review, The Stillwater Review, The McNeese Review, The Nassau Review, The Oklahoma Review, Staghill Literary Journal, The Notre Dame Review, Honest Ulsterman, and Existere among others. She received ‘Writer of the Year Award, 2016’ from Nassau Community College. She has presented her poems at Sahitya Akademi Poets’ Meet, Paisley Book Festival, Craigmillar and Niddrie Community Festival, Betty June Silconas Poetry Festival, Helsinki Poetry Jam, Pulse Radio Glasgow, University of Stirling, University of Westminster, Waterstones Bookstore Canterbury, Prakriti Poetry Festival, and elsewhere. She received Villa Sarkia Writers’ Residency, Finland, where she edited Sin of Semantics, her début poetry collection. She was Charles Wallace Fellow in Creative Writing at the University of Kent, the UK (2019). She is pursuing PhD in Creative Writing at Illinois State University, the US, and has been awarded Sutherland Fellowship to work in the editorial department of the Publications Unit of the university.