About
Seema Reza is a writer and performer and the author of When the World Breaks Open and A Constellation of Half-Lives. Based outside of Washington DC, she is the CEO and founder of Community Building Art Works, an organization that encourages the use of the arts as a tool for narration, self-care and socialization among a military population struggling with emotional and physical injuries. Her writing has been widely anthologized and has appeared in the Washington Post, McSweeney’s, The LA Review, and LitHub among others. She is the 2023 Pauli Murray Art for Racial Justice Fellow at the Antiracism Research and Policy Center at American University.