Bio

Rabha Ashry is an Egyptian poet and memoirist. The recipient of the Brunel International African Poetry Prize in 2020, she is the author of chapbooks “Loving the Alien” and “Grief and Ecstasy”, published in 2021 and 2023. Her debut memoir Hope You Still Love Me has been shortlisted for 2025 Literary Awards with Santa Fe Writers Project. Her debut poetry manuscript received an honorable mention from the African Poetry Book Fund for the Sillerman Prize 2025. Her work has been published in Air/Light, Poetry London, and Another Chicago Magazine, among others. Her essays have been selected as finalist for Black Warrior Review Summer Contest and are forthcoming in Mixed Roots: Writers on Multiracial Identity and Both/And Belonging. She has completed residencies at Oxbow School of Art and Ragdale. She lives in Chicago with her husband and their tiny chihuahua.