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Abdul Ali's first collection of poetry, Trouble Sleeping, was selected by Fanny Howe for the 2014 New Issues Poetry Prize and published by Western Michigan University's New Issues Poetry & Prose in 2015.

Abdul Ali was born in Mt. Pleasant, NY but raised in New York City. Ali is a two-time recipient of the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities’ Literature fellowship. He was a fellow at American University where he received his M.F.A in Creative Writing. His poems have appeared in Gargoyle, A Gathering of Tribes, New Contrast, and the anthology Full Moon on K Street, among other literary journals and magazines. He currently teaches at The Bryn Mawr School in Baltimore and lives in Maryland with his family.

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