2022 Ambassador Alumna
Cottage: Awaiting Residency
BIO: Seema Reza is the author of A Constellation of Half-Lives (poetry, Write Bloody Publishing) & When the World Breaks Open (memoir, Red Hen Press). Based in Maryland, she is CEO of Community Building Art Works, an award-winning organization that brings workshops led by professional artists to veterans, service members, and healthcare providers. Reza’s work with veterans is featured in the 2018 HBO documentary "We Are Not Done Yet" Her writing has been widely anthologized and has appeared in print and on-line in McSweeney’s, The Feminist Wire, The Washington Post, The LA Review, The Offing, and The Nervous Breakdown among others. An alumnus of Goddard College and VONA, she has taught poetry in classrooms, jails, hospitals, and universities, and has performed across the country at universities, theaters, festivals, bookstores, conferences, & one fine mattress shop.