Kazim Ali
Kazim Ali is the author of numerous books of poetry, fiction, essays, and cross-genre work. Sukun: New and Selected Poems (2023) is his recent poetry book, Indian Winter (2024), his recent novel, and Black Buffalo Woman: An Introduction to the Poetry and Poetics of Lucille Clifton (2024), which won the Poetry Foundation’s Pegagus Award for Criticism, his recent book of nonfiction. He co-founded Nightboat Books in 2004 and served as the press's first publisher. He currently serves as Professor of Comparative Literature and Literary Arts, and Associate Director of the Institute for Arts and Humanities at the University of California, San Diego.
