Conversations with Authors: Kazim Ali

Join us as Writer-in-Residence Neil Aitken interviews a new author every month, and asks them about their strangest obsession.

The interviewee for February is Kazim Ali, author of many books including Northern Light: Power, Land, and the Memory of Water.

This program is conducted through Zoom. Register for a reminder at https://www.reginalibrary.ca/attend/programs/5776331

Kazim Ali was born in the United Kingdom and has lived transnationally in the United States, Canada, India, France, and the Middle East. His books encompass multiple genres, including poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and cross-genre works. His most recent book is Northern Light: Power, Land and the Memory of Water (Milkweed Editions, 2021), which Literary Hub called “A balm for the soul.” He is also an accomplished translator and editor of several anthologies and books of criticism.

In 2003 Ali co-founded Nightboat Books and served as the press’s publisher until 2007. He has received an Individual Excellence Award from the Ohio Arts Council, and his poetry has been featured in Best American Poetry. Ali has been a regular columnist for the American Poetry Review and a contributing editor for the Association of Writers and Writing Programs’ Writer’s Chronicle. He is a former member of the Cocoon Theatre Modern Dance Company.

He is currently a Professor of Literature at the University of California, San Diego.

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