Samina Najmi
Writer, Scholar, Educator


Forthcoming in 2025
Sing Me a Circle
Love, Loss, and a Home in Time
Sing Me a Circle: Love, Loss, and a Home in Time, winner of the 2024 Aurora Polaris Prize in creative nonfiction. Sing Me a Circle is a memoir in essays, written over a span of ten years. The perspective is that of a Pakistani American Muslim woman, now rooted in Fresno, in California’s Central Valley, where her primary identity is that of a professor and a mother of two. Her thoughts on the present and the future reach into a past that spans multiple continents and generations.

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