Yasmine Ameli
Yasmine Ameli is an Iranian American poet and essayist based outside Boston. She holds a BA in English from Johns Hopkins University and an MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry) from Virginia Tech. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Poetry, Ploughshares, The Sun, Southern Review, Narrative, Black Warrior Review, and elsewhere. She teaches creative writing through the Loft Literary Center and Grub Street and works independently as a writing life coach. You can find her on Instagram @yasmineameli.
Reading List
We Title a Google Doc Winter Getaway
Sheets. Towels. Wedge of goat milk soap. Orange blossom water and first aid kit. L’arabe du futur, which I read to you in stilted college French. Your accent is less American, you assess. More like my father’s. He fled to Syria during the War. Fell in love in France with a French girl. You were […]
Border Control
We cross a map’s line, and this is the pilot speaking: We are entering Iran Air. From purses teenagers unpack floral-print scarves and tuck their sisters’ hairs behind linen borders. When we land in Tehran, we unload from the top bin the baggage of the old khanoum one seat ahead. She jerks her […]