Abdul Ali

Teaches at The Writer's Center

Abdul Ali's debut collection of poems, Trouble Sleeping, won the 2014 New Issues Poetry Prize. His work has been published or is forthcoming by the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day series, Gathering of Tribes, Poet Lore, and Plume, to name a few. He has taught writing at Montgomery College, Goucher College, and Towson University. Ali earned an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from American University where he was a graduate fellow. He is currently at work on a new collection of poems and some essays.