Rowyda Amin was born in Newfoundland, Canada to parents of Saudi Arabian and Irish origin, has lived in Riyadh and London and is now based in New York City.
She has won the C. D. Wright Prize from The Arkansas International and the Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize for poetry. She is the author of the poetry chapbooks Desert Sunflowers (flipped eye) and We Go Wandering at Night and Are Consumed by Fire (Sidekick Books). Her poems have appeared in the New England Review, swamp pink, The Beloit Poetry Journal, Poetry Review, Magma , Small Orange, and Wasafiri, and in the anthologies Mapping the Future: The Complete Works Poets (Bloodaxe Books), Ten (Bloodaxe Books), Bad Kid Catullus (Sidekick Books), Aquanauts (Sidekick Books), No, Robot, No! (Sidekick Books), Bird Book : Towns, Parks, Gardens and Woodland, (Sidekick Books), Lung Jazz: Young British Poets for Oxfam (Cinnamon Press), Coin Opera (Sidekick Books) and Exposure (Cinnamon Press).
Her name is pronounced Roe-why-da A-meen.
Rowyda Amin 