Coming Soon: Elegy for My Tongue, by Saba Husain
Saba Husain is a Pakistani-born American poet. Her work can be found in numerous literary journals including Sequestrum, Barrow Street, Cimarron Review, Texas Review, and the Dallas Review. She was a finalist for the 2021 and 2020 X.J. Kennedy Poetry Prize, and won the 2022 Equinox Hot Poets Spring Poetry Contest. She holds a day job far removed from her writing career, but makes up for it by serving on the board of Houston's Mutabilis Press. She lives in Houston, Texas. An earlier version of her manuscript was a finalist for the 2023 Perugia Press Prize. Elegy for My Tongue is her debut poetry collection.