Bushra Rehman’s mother says Bushra was born in an ambulance flying through the streets of Brooklyn. Her father is not so sure, but it would explain a few things. Bushra was a vagabond poet who traveled for years with nothing more than a greyhound ticket and a book bag full of poems. She is co-editor of Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism (Seal Press 2002). She has been featured on BBC Radio 4, KPFA, the Brian Lehrer Show and in The New York Times, India Currents and NY Newsday. Her work has appeared in Crab Orchard Review, Sepia Mutiny, Color Lines, Mizna, Curve, SAMAR, and in numerous anthologies including Indivisible: An Anthology of Contemporary South Asian American Poetry, And the World Changed: Pakistani-American Writing, and Voices of Resistance: Muslim Women on War, Faith and Sexuality. As a teaching artist she has worked with Teachers & Writers Collaborative, Urban Word NYC, Community Word Project, the Asian American Writers’ Workshop and Bard High School Early College in Queens.