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Seema Reza

Seema Reza
Seema Reza is the author of A Constellation of Half-Lives and When the World Breaks Open. Based in Maryland, she is the CEO of Community Building Art Works, an arts 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. An alumnus of Goddard College and VONA, her writing has been widely anthologized and has appeared in the Washington Post, McSweeney’s, The LA Review, Lit Hub and Electric Literature among others. Reza was the 2023 Pauli Murray Art for Social Justice Fellow at the Antiracism Research and Policy Center at American University. In 2017, she participated in the Fine Arts Work Center’s Summer Workshop program as a student and then returned as a writing instructor in 2023.


Finding a Writing Life of
One’s Own

“I was not writing as an act of defiance or service or claim to myself. I was writing because I wanted to.”
February 20, 2024  By Seema Reza
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Seema Reza on the Joy of Being (Completely) Alone

“Uncontrollable. They meant the word as a criticism; I wore it as a badge.”
May 17, 2022  By Seema Reza
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