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Samina Najmi

@snajmi.bsky.social
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Writer, professor, mother. California State University, Fresno. 2024 Aurora Polaris Award in creative nonfiction for Sing Me A Circle. Pre-order from Trio House Press. saminanajmi.com

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Samina Najmi @snajmi.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
San Diego, come join us Tuesday night at The Book Catapult in South Park!
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Samina Najmi @snajmi.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Thanks to my local NPR station for the interview ahead of the book launch. Link in comments.
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Samina Najmi @snajmi.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
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Debutiful @debutiful.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Here are 12 debut books that will make your October spooky fun! debutiful.net/2025/10/01/1...
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Trio House Press @triohousepress.org · 01/10/2025
Happy Publication Day, @snajmi.bsky.social, @reneethewriter.bsky.social, and Elline Lipkin! See you tonight at the YouTube Release Reading!
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Debutiful @debutiful.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
In her debut memoir-in-essays, SING ME A CIRCLE, @snajmi.bsky.social, meditates on memory, displacement, and the enduring ties of family. Discover the books that shaped her life and influenced her writing debutiful.net/2025/09/29/m...
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Trio House Press @triohousepress.org · 30/09/2025
Tomorrow, October 1 — join us on YouTube for this stellar @triohousepress release reading by Elline Lipkin, Samina Najmi (@snajmi.bsky.social) and Renee Gilmore (@reneethewriter.bsky.social)!
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Trio House Press @triohousepress.org · 27/09/2025
Mark your calendars! Our fall release YouTube reading featuring @reneethewriter.bsky.social, @snajmi.bsky.social & Elline Lipkin is on Wednesday, October 1! 5 pm Pacific, 6 pm Mountain, 7 pm Central, 8 pm Eastern. See you there! bit.ly/YouTubeTrio
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Samina Najmi @snajmi.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
What an honor for Sing Me a Circle to be included among Bonnie Hearn Hill's selections for the Great Day Book Club!
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Samina Najmi @snajmi.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
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Trio House Press @triohousepress.org · 15/09/2025
The Fall Trio House Press YouTube release happens October 1 — preorder from us before 9/20 and receive your copy of October releases by @snajmi.bsky.social, @reneethewriter.bsky.social & Elline Lipkin by October 1, so you can follow along! triohousepress.myshopify.com
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Trio House Press @triohousepress.org · 14/09/2025
So pleased to see @snajmi.bsky.social’s forthcoming Sing Me a Circle announced in @asianreviewofbooks.bsky.social! 💜💛💜💛
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Samina Najmi @snajmi.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Thank you, Theo Nestor! Come read the full blurb at saminanajmi.com and preorder the book from @triohousepress.org and internationally from Amazon.
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Trio House Press @triohousepress.org · 08/09/2025
See what all the buzz is about — @snajmi.bsky.social, @reneethewriter.bsky.social and Elline Lipkin share the inspirations behind their forthcoming books, releasing October 1! open.substack.com/pub/triohous...
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Samina Najmi @snajmi.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
E-book alert - and it includes two additional essays!
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Trio House Press @triohousepress.org · 04/09/2025
Mark your calendars! Our fall release YouTube reading featuring @snajmi.bsky.social, @reneethewriter.bsky.social, and Elline Lipkin, October 1 at 7 pm Central! bit.ly/YouTubeTrio
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Samina Najmi @snajmi.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
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Samina Najmi @snajmi.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Thank you, Angela Morales, for the inspiration that you and your book have been in my writing life. @professorbgirl.bsky.social
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Trio House Press @triohousepress.org · 29/08/2025
@snajmi.bsky.social reads from Sing Me a Circle in @pw.org!
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Trio House Press @triohousepress.org · 26/08/2025
Only a few more days to get free shipping on all print titles, including pre-orders of books by @snajmi.bsky.social, @reneethewriter.bsky.social, Brother Anthony of Taize, and Elline Lipkin! triohousepress.myshopify.com
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Samina Najmi @snajmi.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
In the countdown to publication, let me share some very generous blurbs my book received from six writers I admire. . . .
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Trio House Press @triohousepress.org · 21/08/2025
Sing Me a Circle by @snajmi.bsky.social is featured in @pw.org’s New Nonfiction! Read it here or in the print edition. Preorder from @triohousepress.org and get free shipping—book arrives in late September! 💜💛💜💛 www.pw.org/content/the_...
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Davi Gray (she/they) @davigray.com · 20/08/2025
"When we cast our hollowings onto the page, we re-embody them. We give them shape and form. We re-member ourselves." hngrmtn.org/issues/hunge... Gorgeous essay by @snajmi.bsky.social (her memoir-in-essays out soon with @triohousepress.org)
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Hunger Mountain Review – VCFA Journal of the Arts
Hunger Mountain is the VCFA Journal of the Arts
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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
SLM fam accomplishment alert!🚨Contributors @sfmontgomery.bsky.social and @snajmi.bsky.social will be featured at the Fresno Writers Summit! buff.ly/QrmgfWk
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Trio House Press @triohousepress.org · 11/08/2025
Celebrating a starred review in @publisherswkly.bsky.social of Sing Me a Circle by @snajmi.bsky.social! 💜💛💜💛 Read it here: www.publishersweekly.com/9781949487480
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Samina Najmi @snajmi.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
PEN South Africa literary reading this Thu! Join us for this global gathering of writers at 5 pm South Africa time, 8 am Pacific, 8 pm Pakistan.
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Samina Najmi @snajmi.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Last couple of days to win a free copy before the Oct. 1 publication date! www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...
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Trio House Press @triohousepress.org · 25/07/2025
@triohousepress.org is so pleased to announce another Editors’ Selection: Leila Farjami’s Daughter of Salt, slated for publication in 2026. Congratulations!!
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Trio House Press @triohousepress.org · 20/07/2025
Next week, @rhonierika.bsky.social reads in Paris, @snajmi.bsky.social leads an online corporeal writing workshop, and a few days later, @heideerdrich.bsky.social is at The Guggenheim! Check out these events and more on our website: www.triohousepress.org/upcoming-eve...
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Samina Najmi @snajmi.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...
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Book giveaway for Sing Me a Circle: Love, Loss, and a Home in Time by Samina Najmi Jul 01-Jul 31, 2025
Enter to win one of 10 free copies available. Giveaway dates from Jul 01-Jul 31, 2025. Samina Najmi's exquisite memoir in essays, Sing Me a Circle: Love,...
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Trio House Press @triohousepress.org · 09/07/2025
Ever wonder how to organize and format a poetry manuscript? Check out executive editor @krisbigalk.bsky.social’s latest Letter From the Editor: open.substack.com/pub/krisbiga...
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How to Order and Organize a Poetry Collection Manuscript
Tips, Resources, and Encouragement
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Trio House Press @triohousepress.org · 08/07/2025
Wayfinding: a Memoir by @reneethewriter.bsky.social is featured on @clmporg.bsky.social’s Disability Pride Month list! www.clmp.org/news/a-readi... Preorders are open, so reserve your copy today! triohousepress.myshopify.com/products/pre...
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Maureen Langloss @maureenlangloss.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
We’re pretty lucky to be writers & artists. I know the writing life is hard. It’s so much rejection & work & stumbling around. But not everyone gets to put their soul on the page like we do. Imagine those souls flying around untethered, without a perch. That has to be its own kind of pain.
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Samina Najmi @snajmi.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
"The Heft of the Hollowing" is about the fire in my home in 2021 and the words I lost in the aftermath. Thank you, @hungermtn.bsky.social hngrmtn.org/issues/hunge...
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Hunger Mountain Review – VCFA Journal of the Arts
Hunger Mountain is the VCFA Journal of the Arts
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Samina Najmi @snajmi.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Hey, hey, it's a Goodreads giveaway. Enter for a chance to win a free copy before the Oct 1 publication date!
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Trio House Press @triohousepress.org · 01/07/2025
You’re invited! Our 2025 YouTube Release Reading is July 2nd at 5pm Pacific/6 pm Mountain/7 pm Central/8 pm Eastern, featuring @introspectiveant.bsky.social, @rhonierika.bsky.social, @kalekim.bsky.social, @susanap.bsky.social, & @martheaus.bsky.social! youtube.com/@krisbigalk-...
Photos of authors and book covers
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Samina Najmi @snajmi.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Big congrats to my pressmate @debkossmann.bsky.social on making this list!
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Anthony Borruso @introspectiveant.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Come by our launch reading to see me read beside these amazing @triohousepress authors! If you don’t show, I’ll track you down and give this look!
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Susan L. Leary @susanlleary.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Have been wanting to place a poem in Pedestal Magazine since I started submitting, so it means a great deal to have “Lilacs, Music, Boy” featured in the newest issue. Big thanks to John Amen and the editorial team for this joy, this kindness! Read the issue: thepedestalmagazine.com/issues/issue...
Lilacs, Music, Boy

Music really does heal all wounds!! I will believe that until the day I die. —BLK,
8/18/2020

I conclude with a sound
that is a boy in a field with his sketch 
pad penciling lilacs across 
a face. A boy, by his own remedy, 
trusting to drown out the warships & human energy. But music is not an escape 
to somewhere else—& why this somewhere else is not the real thing when 
certainly it is? A garden everywhere 
is a slab of concrete. No window 
to leap from. No final wind exiting 
the body. Those with foresight care little 
for the atmosphere & what it listens 
to, but as you would, Brother, you attempt 
to bandage the sound. You hide, first, the noise from the music then realign the proper sense with the proper task. Death is scarcely viable & time is trembling. So are the lilacs. Maybe now you can go home.
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Trio House Press @triohousepress.org · 25/06/2025
@triohousepress.org is thrilled to announce the winner of the 2025 Aurora Polaris Prize in Creative Nonfiction: War Boys by @jasonprokowiew.bsky.social! Congratulations, Jason!
Photo of Jason ProkowiewPhoto of Publishers Marketplace announcement
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Trio House Press @triohousepress.org · 24/06/2025
Only a few more days to submit your work! No fee for those who earn under $50K. Learn more and submit here: triohousepress.submittable.com/submit
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Samina Najmi @snajmi.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily...
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Tea Montage - 3 Quarks Daily
by Shadab Zeest Hashmi
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Trio House Press @triohousepress.org · 16/06/2025
Read some poetry by our recent award winners and get to know them! @joustingsnail.bsky.social @fleursdumai.bsky.social & Emily Hyland open.substack.com/pub/triohous...
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Trio House Press @triohousepress.org · 11/06/2025
@triohousepress.org is publishing its first translation — Seeking You by Jeong Ho-seung, translated by Brother Anthony of Taize! Check out the cover and pre-order your copy now! Releasing on 10/1 triohousepress.myshopify.com/products/pre...
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Samina Najmi @snajmi.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
A new flash piece, "Fire Song," with thanks to The Los Angeles Review losangelesreview.org
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The Los Angeles Review
The Sun Also Rises in the West
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Susan L. Leary @susanlleary.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
🚨SALE!🚨I noticed a certain retailer is selling my book for less than $5 and thought I should offer copies for the same price! So, if you've been wanting to read DRESSING THE BEAR, l'd love to send you it! $5 INCLUDES SHIPPING, until I run out! DM me! And thank you in advance! 💙 @triohousepress.org
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Trio House Press @triohousepress.org · 01/06/2025
NOW OPEN! Free submissions for those who earn under $50K; $25 reading fee for earners over $50K — accepting poetry, CNF ms and proposals, and poetry/CNF translations during June. triohousepress.submittable.com/submit
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Trio House Press @triohousepress.org · 30/05/2025
Only one more day to save 25% on books by @kalekim.bsky.social @rhonierika.bsky.social @lsevick.bsky.social @snajmi.bsky.social & @debkossmann.bsky.social! Order today! triohousepress.myshopify.com
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Mai Der Vang | Maiv Dawb Vaj @maidervang.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
"I will keep haunting the war and I will keep digging into its wound..." @truthout.org published my essay on the 50th anniversary to the end of the US wars in Southeast Asia. Here's to remembrance of May 1975 and all that preceded it and that followed. truthout.org/articles/us-...
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US Proxy War Displaced My Family 50 Years Ago. We Still Live in the Wreckage.
As the daughter of Hmong refugees, I know the traumatic consequences of American foreign policy.
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Trio House Press @triohousepress.org · 18/05/2025
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