Samina Najmi

Samina Najmi teaches multiethnic US literatures at California State University, Fresno. Besides her scholarship on race, gender, and war in US literatures, she has published creative nonfiction essays in over thirty literary magazines, including World Literature Today. Daughter of multigenerational displacements, Samina grew up in Pakistan and England, spent eighteen years in Massachusetts, and, since 2006, calls Fresno, California, home. Here she has watched with wonder her two children, her...See more

Samina Najmi teaches multiethnic US literatures at California State University, Fresno. Besides her scholarship on race, gender, and war in US literatures, she has published creative nonfiction essays in over thirty literary magazines, including World Literature Today. Daughter of multigenerational displacements, Samina grew up in Pakistan and England, spent eighteen years in Massachusetts, and, since 2006, calls Fresno, California, home. Here she has watched with wonder her two children, her many students, and her citrus grow. Samina believes in Fresno's sunsets; in everyone's three feet of influence, and in the power of language and literature to extend our reach beyond. See less