Dilruba Ahmed’s poems have appeared in Crab Orchard Review, Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, The Asian Pacific American Journal, and elsewhere. Her work is forthcoming in Writing the Lines of Our Hands, an anthology of South Asian American poetry. She is a project coordinator at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching in Stanford, California, and co-editor of Going Public with Our Teaching: An Anthology of Practice (Teachers College Press, 2005). She received a BPhil in English Writing and a MAT in Instruction and Learning from the University of Pittsburgh. She currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.