Praise for SIN
"I am moved by each poem's quiet refusal to be still.” -J Mae Barizo, author of tender machines
"Tendered in the narratives planted throughout this book is the iconography of the body and its desires." -Adedayo Agarau, Stegner Fellow, author of The Years of Blood
"... A genius of comparison with a stunning ability to scale cosmic and ordinary language, Hasnain has revealed herself to be a poet unafraid of any hungry horror, vibrant vitrol, or Dionysian damnation. Coyotes, countries and carnal desire alike flit across these pages like bats, imbued with an ancient apathy, poised to grow and loom over us in their gargantuan glory. Impeccably audacious and timelessly daring. I’m in awe." -Sanna Wani, author of My Grief, The Sun
SIN, my debut chapbook of poems, narrating desire, femininity, and transgression is out now from Chestnut Review. Order here.
ABOUT
Javeria Hasnain is a writer, translator, and educator from Karachi, and the author of SIN (Chestnut Review, 2024). Her poems and prose have appeared widely, most recently, in Pleiades, Poet Lore, The Brazenhead Review, and Foglifter. She is translating Sara Shagufta's poetry collection, Aankhein, into English, EYES, EYES, EYES (trace press, 2026), for which she won the PEN English x SALT Translates Award. She received her MFA in Poetry from The New School in New York as a Fulbright scholar, and was selected as a 2023-24 Educational Associate at Teachers & Writers Collaborative. She has received fellowships and support for her writing from Sewanee Writers Conference, International Writing Program (IWP), and Tamaas. Hasnain has taught creative writing workshops with Brooklyn Poets, Writing Workshops, Writopia Lab Inc, Kitab Ghar, and Writing Colab, among others. She has previously also worked with Cave Canem Foundation, Alice James Press, and Tupelo Press. She is a PhD student of English at Fordham University and reads for The Rumpus.
