Shadab Zeest Hashmi has an MFA from Warren Wilson. She has been the editor of the annual Magee Park Poets Anthology since 2000. Originally from Pakistan, she lives in San Diego. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Poetry International, Vallum, Nimrod, New Millennium Writings, The Bitter Oleander, Hubbub, Poetry Conspiracy, Contemporary World Literature, Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies, South Asian Review and the Journal of Postcolonial Writings. She has been published online in The Cortland Review and UniVerse: A United Nations of Poetry among other publications. She has recently been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her book of poems Baker of Tarifa (Poetic Matrix Press) was published in 2010 and won the San Diego Book Award.