Virginia Quarterly Review

And if we are aligned and intuiting, we will listen and we will go towards it.

Sanam Sheriff is a poet whose writing has been published in Poetry Magazine, Palma Day, The Rumpus, Poetry Daily, Indiana Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Adroit Journal, and Outlook India, among others.

Her debut poetry collection, Hum, won the Backwaters Prize in Poetry.

Sanam has also received scholarships from Kundiman, Tin House, the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, Poets and Writers, the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, the Fine Arts Work Center, the Watering Hole, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, and the Thomas J. Watson Foundation.

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And yeah, that whole thing too is just was so interesting because it's like I did some workshops I did to us a couple times did like Virginia quarterly review has a workshop and like, and, and those were valuable if only again because I was just like relearning the same lesson over and over again in terms of just like

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or just like this is like how you talk to people like this is how you talk to other writers this is how you talk to editors this is how you talk to agents this is how you can ask for advice without seeming like obsequious and like and total like