Theophanies

Winner of the 2025 GLCA New Writers Award for Poetry

Moving between the scriptures of the Qur’an and the Bible, the poems of Theophanies arise from the speaker’s tenuous grip on her own faith while navigating the colonial legacy of Partition and inherited patriarchal expectations of womanhood.

Sarah Ghazal Ali''s award-winning debut, Theophanies explores the complexities and spectacles of gender, f...