Samiya Bashir

Current

• Board Member at Fire & Ink
• Principal Consultant at Lead Time Consulting
• Independent Artist at Independent Artist

Past

• MFA Poetry at University of Michigan
• Writing Workshop Instructor at Various Organizations -- See Summary
• Communications Director at Freedom to Marry

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Education

• University of Michigan
• University of California, Berkeley

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Connections

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Industry

Non-Profit Organization Management

Samiya Bashir’s Summary

Lead Time Principal Consultant Samiya Bashir has over a decade of on-the-ground experience working with non-profit, arts, education, and small-business clients. Samiya has lent her communications and editorial expertise to a number of arts organizations and is a proud founding organizer of Fire & Ink.

Samiya's editorial background is extensive. She has served as an editor for Ms., Black Issues Book Review, Curve, and others. An award-winning creative writer and Cave Canem fellow, Samiya is the author of the Lambda Literary Award finalist Where the Apple Falls: poems and Gospel (forthcoming in 2009 from RedBone Press). She is editor of Role Call and Best Black Women’s Erotica 2. Her articles, stories and poetry have appeared in books, magazines and journals internationally.

Samiya Bashir’s Specialties:

Dynamic, creative professional with extensive, multicultural network of allies in the areas of business, non-profit, non-governmental organizations, and the arts. Proven leader and problem-solver with quick-on-the-feet thinking skills. Innovative budget management and cost negotiation skills. Exceptional researcher with advanced multi-media and technological skills. Demonstrated manager and team builder. Experienced public speaker with a talent for engaging individuals and groups.

Additional Information

Samiya Bashir’s Interests:

poetry, literary fiction, non-fiction, essays, communications, public relations, promotion, non-profit management, music, tennis, parks, travel, civil rights history, creative writing, arts, visual arts, online communication innovation

Samiya Bashir’s Groups:

Cave Canem
Fire & Ink
National Black Justice Coalition
FIRE & INK: A FESTIVAL OF LESBIAN & GAY WRITERS OF AFRICAN DESCENT (2002-Present)
Co-Founder & Organizer; current member of the Board of Directors, www.fireandink.org
NATIONAL BLACK JUSTICE COALITION (2006-Present)
Member of the Board of Directors, www.nbjcoalition.org
BLACK PRIDE NYC (9/99–9/00)
Board Member & Chair of Media Committee
CAVE CANEM FOUNDATION (2002-Present)
Awarded 5-year fellowship with the prestigious African American poetry workshop

•    African American LGBT community

Samiya Bashir’s Honors:

LAMBDA LITERARY FOUNDATION (2006)
My poetry collection, Where the Apple Falls, is a current finalist for the 2005 Lambda Literary Award
CAVE CANEM FOUNDATION (2002-2006)
Awarded 5-year fellowship with the prestigious African American poetry workshop
URBAN SPECTRUM AWARD (2006 & 2003)
My poetry collection, Where the Apple Falls, won the 2005 award for Best Book of Poetry by an SGL Poet.
My fiction anthology, Best Black Women’s Erotica 2, won the 2003 award for Best Anthology of the Year.
URBAN SPECTRUM AWARD
My anthology, Best Black Women’s Erotica 2, won the 2003 Best Erotica Award.
ASTRAEA LESBIAN FOUNDATION FOR JUSTICE (2002)
Awarded prestigious Lesbian Poetry Award
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF PEN WOMEN (1997)
Poet’s Choice Award
SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN (1996)
Poetry Award

Samiya Bashir’s Contact Settings

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