CURRICULUM VITAE
EDUCATION
Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, San Diego State University, California.
Bachelor of Arts in English Literature with a minor in Sociology; University of California, Davis.
EMPLOYMENT & VOLUNTEER WORK
December 2023 – Present
Lead Academic Coach – High Tech High International — San Diego, CA
November 2023– Present
Poet-Teacher – California Poets in the Schools — San Diego, CA
August 2023 – December 2023
Academic Coach – Steele Canyon High School — San Diego, CA
July 2023 – August 2023
Unit Director – Girl Scouts — San Diego, CA
October 2022 – Present
Poetry Workshop Instructor – Women’s Wisdom Art — Sacramento, CA
August 2022 – Present
English Teacher – Survival English for Newly Arrived Afghans (SENA), License to Freedom — San Diego, CA
June 2022 – Present
Test Administrator – Pearson Education — San Diego, CA
January 2022 – May 2022
Graduate Student Assistant, Native Resource Center – San Diego State University – San Diego, CA
September 2021 – December 2021
Graduate Assistant Writing Fellow, English Department – San Diego State University – San Diego, CA
August 2019 — September 2021
Rhetoric and Writing Studies Teaching Assistant – San Diego State University – San Diego, CA
August 2016 — May 2018
Post-Baccalaureate Certificate Program in Writing – University of California, Berkeley — Berkeley, CA
POEM PUBLICATIONS
“Orion’s Halo” — Rock & Sling (forthcoming)
“Resurrected Infinity” — Progenitor Art and Literary Journal (May 2024)
“Spaces Between Spaces” — The Elevation Review (April 2024)
“Ode to Oranges” — Kitchen Table Quarterly (April 2024)
“November” — Dipity Journal (December 2023)
“Saturation” — Ignatian Literary Magazine at University of San Francisco (December 2023)
“Laughter”— Flint Hills Review (December 2023)
“Sleep/Keep” — Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature, December 2023
“Diversity is a Dirty Word” — Folly Journal, (November 2023)
“Ode to Doorways”— Dreamer’s Chronicles, The Wingless Dreamer (August 2023)
“Triple Beam” — Maintenant 17, (July 2023)
“Pull of Sleep” — Cradle of Balladry, The Wingless Dreamer, (May 2023)
“MAP: Moments of Astral Projection” — The Offending Adam, August 2021
“Sloppy Grows” — Dada Journal Maintenant 14, Three Rooms Press (2020)
“Bay-Sick Scene” — Showbear Family Circus, (June 2020)
“Uninstall” — Dada Journal Maintenant 13, Three Rooms Press (2019)
“Mister-y Veil” — Finalist in Medieval Poetry Contest 2021, The Wingless Dreamer
“Brooklyn Night Bazaar” — Hash Journal (2020)
“BART Simpson” — Jack Kerouac Poetry Contest Honorable Mention, Davis CA
BOOK REVIEWS
“Mariam Ahmed in Conversation with Brent Ameneyro,”
Atticus Review, March 2024
“A Poet Distilled,” Puebla by Brent Ameneyro
The Los Angeles Review, February 2024
“You Are In No Position to Criticize Anyone,” From From by Monica Youn
Poetry International, September 2023
“Survival & Beyond,”The Surviving Twin: A Memoir of Asperger’s, Anorexia, and Loss by Diana Lockwood
The Los Angeles Review, June 2022
“Dance, Dare and Dream,” Advanced Dancing by Laverne Frith
Sacramento Poetry Center, February 2017
MEDIA APPEARANCES
Dr. Andy’s Poetry and Technology Hour — August 31, 2023
The Offending Adam Podcast: “Mariam Ahmed on Poetry as a Scatter Plot of Moments” — September 20, 2021
MEMBERSHIPS & AFFILIATIONS
San Diego Writers and Editors Guild – Active Member
Certified CalPoet-Teacher — California Poets in the Schools
Women’s Wisdom Art – Poetry Instructor