Adeeba Shahid Talukder is a Pakistani and Bengali-American poet, vocalist, and translator. She is the author of Shahr-e-jaanaan: The City of the Beloved (Tupelo Press, 2020), winner of the 2017 Kundiman Poetry Prize and the chapbook What Is Not Beautiful (Glass Poetry Press, 2018). She is also co-author, with Aria Fani, of Shape of Extinction: Poems by Bijan Jalali (2025, Asemana Press), winner of the 2025 Lois Roth Persian Translation Prize.
Her work has been published by Washington Square Review, Gulf Coast, World Literature Today, Aleph Review, Words Without Borders, and The Academy of American Poets among other platforms, as well as anthologized in The World I Leave You: Asian American Poets on Faith & Spirit (Orison Books, 2020); New Moons: Contemporary Writing by North American Muslims (Red Hen Press, 2021); and Poetry in English from Pakistan: A 21st Century Anthology (Alhamra Press, 2024). Her poems have also been translated into Urdu, and several rendered in film and musical composition.
Adeeba holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Michigan and has received fellowships from Kundiman and Poets House. She is currently training in Hindustani classical music under Ustad Salamat Ali and Jayanta Banerjee, and is the recipient of a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts for her project Composing the Ghazal: Carrying Forward a Musical and Literary Tradition.
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