Bushra Rehman's mother says Bushra was born in an
ambulance flying through the streets of Brooklyn. Her
father is not so sure. Since there are no definitive
records of the time of her birth, there is no real way
of knowing, but it would explain a few things. Bushra
is a vagabond poet who traveled for years with nothing
more than a greyhound ticket and a book bag full of
poems. Now, she performs her poetry regularly in
theaters and colleges around the world. Lately, she's
been spending her time flying through the streets of
Brooklyn and Oakland writing an on the road adventure
novel for Muslim girls.
In her travels, Bushra met Daisy Hernandez and together they edited a book of essays titled Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism (Seal Press, 2002).
Bushra's poetry has been collected in the chapbook Marianna's Beauty Salon (Vagabond Press, 2001). She has been featured on BBC Radio 4, in The New York Times and NY Newsday and her work has appeared in ColorLines, Mizna, Curve, SAMAR, and Bottomfish. Her writing is forthcoming in Writing the Lines of Our Hands: An Anthology of South Asian American Poetry (Creative Arts Press), Voices of Resistance: Muslim Women on War, Faith and Sexuality (Seal Press) and Stories of Illness and Healing: Women Write Their Bodies (Kent State University Press).
Books edited by Bushra Rehman
