Segue: Samiya Bashir & Nora Treatbaby

We’re excited to be hosting the Segue Reading Series this October and November.

Every Saturday
5pm – 7pm EDT
Artists Space
11 Cortlandt Alley, New York

November 8: Samiya Bashir & Nora Treatbaby

Samiya Bashir is a poet, artist, writer, performer, educator, and advocate. She is the author of four poetry collections, including I Hope This Helps (2025) and Field Theories (2017), winner of the 2018 Oregon Book Awards Stafford/Hall Award for Poetry. Her other books are Gospel (2009), and Where the Apple Falls (2005). Samiya’s honors include the Rome Prize in Literature, the Pushcart Prize, Oregon’s Arts & Culture Council Individual Artist Fellowship in Literature. She lives in Harlem.

Nora Treatbaby is a writer and artist based in New York State. She is the author of Our Air (2024), as well as two chapbooks, I <3 2 Swim (2022) and Hope Is Weird (2020).