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Sascha Aurora Akhtar

Sascha Aurora Akhtar is a trans-race, multi-dimensional, sub rosa poeto/story-bot. She was patented in Pakistan. Had upgrades in pre- 9/11 U.S.A. Was released onto shelves in the U.K. Her roboto-poetics have been widely anthologized and translated into Armenian, Portuguese, Galician, Russian, Dutch and Polish. Anthologies include Cathecism: Poems for Pussy Riot (2012) and Out of Everywhere (Reality Street, 2015), Women:Poetry:Migration (Theenk Books 2018). Sascha has performed internationally at festivals such as the Poetry International Festival Rotterdam, Avantgarde Festival Hamburg and Southbank Centre’s MELTDOWN festival London curated by Yoko Ono. She has also been part of poetry protests—Against Rape (Peony Moon, 2014), Solidarity Park Poetry—Poems for the Turkish resistance (Ed. 2013). Her most recent collection is 199 Japanese Names for Japanese Trees (Shearsman, 2016). In 2017 and 2018, her fiction appeared in StorgyThe Learned PigTears In The FenceBlazeVox and Anti-Heroin Chic.