Nazifa Islam is the author of the poetry collections Searching for a Pulse (Whitepoint Press) and Forlorn Light: Virginia Woolf Found Poems (Shearsman Books). Her fiction, paintings, and poems have appeared in Waxwing, RHINO, The Account, The Believer, The Southern Review, The Rumpus, among other publications; and her work has been selected for inclusion in The Best American Poetry anthology series and The Wigleaf Top 50. You can find her @nafoopal.