There was an F1 student from a third world country
who taught 9 to 6 at a montessori
she lived off sour milk and mushy peas
while saving up for an MFA degree
but blew all of it on the sky suite at Hyatt Regency

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Anum Sattar is a recent graduate from College of Wooster in Ohio, USA.

Her poems have been published in the American Journal of Poetry (Margie), WINK: Writers in the Know, Literary Heist, Scarlet Leaf Review, Deep Overstock, Daily Haiga, Under the Basho, Indicia: a journal curating literary arts, Calliope by Writers' Special Interest Group (SIG) of American Mensa Ltd, Modern Haiku, Blazevox, Harbinger Asylum, Visitant, Social Alternatives Journal, Foxtrot Uniform, Voice of Eve, Notre Dame Review, GUSTS, Porter Gulch Review, Midway Journal, Willard & Maple, Meniscus Journal by Australian Association of Writing Programs, Indianapolis Review, Lullwater Review, Rat's Ass Review, North Dakota Quarterly, IDK Magazine, Door is a Jar, Ribbons, South Florida Poetry Journal, Typehouse Literary Magazine, Charles Cater: a working anthology, 50 Haikus, Stuck in the Library, Broadkill Review, Poetry Life and Times, Triggerfish Critical Review, Packingtown Review, Blithe Spirit, Mythic Circle, HOBART, SurVision Magazine, Literary Juice, Coal City Review, Crack the Spine, Lowestoft Chronicle, Taj Mahal Review, FIVE 2 ONE: An Art and Literary Journal, Linnet's Wings, Ragazine, Better than Starbucks, Florida Review, Snow Jewel Journal by Grey Sparrow Press, Oddball Magazine, Artifact Nouveau, Off the Coast, Strange POEtry, Between These Shores Literary & Arts Annual, Conceit Magazine, A New Ulster, Cannon's Mouth, Journal of Contemporary Anglo-Scandinavian Poetry, Wilderness House Literary Review, Poydras Review, Cadaverine, Verbalart: A Global Journal Devoted to Poets & Poetry, Wayne Literary Journal, Ibis Head Review, Avocet: A Journal of Nature Poems, Poets Bridge, Deltona Howl and Tipton Poetry Journal.

She won the first Grace Prize and third Vonna Hicks poetry awards at the college.

She read out her work at Brooklyn Poets, Spoonbill and Sugartown Bookstore, Forest Hills Library in New York City, Cuyahoga Valley Art Center at Cuyahoga Falls, OH, Bridgewater College in Shenandoah Valley, VA, Cabrillo College in Aptos, CA, Barnes & Noble, Webster, Texas, (sponsored by Cosmic Poets Society) and Cholla Needles’ Shelter-In-Place Open Readings.

She was recently interviewed at 17 Numa, Houston Pacifica Radio 90.1 FM KPFT, Radio Free Brooklyn and “Where Women Talk” by Nadia Giordana.