https://www.nishatahmed.com/welcome daily 1.0 2026-01-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d00f106b8f5b01c8e73f52/1491858366054-VN3632LUL8YNY0SH4RCQ/color-3.png Welcome https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d00f106b8f5b01c8e73f52/1491858427382-L46N6OML0EQRY4L20YNX/color-3.png Welcome https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de4af493fbbc6593aece19f/1577741383785-EFBMS07PVB0WKJ0ONXGY/Courtesy+of+Kelsey+Greene+Photography Welcome - Award-Winning Poet, Content Writer, & Creative Strategist Nishat Ahmed is a Bangladeshi-American writer and musician currently based in Chicago. After receiving a Bachelor of Arts in creative writing with a concentration in Poetry and a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Nishat went on to further his studies at Old Dominion University where he earned his Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing with an emphasis in Poetry. In the professional field, Nishat has shouldered many roles and tuned his writing to many voices. From a start-up sending handwritten letters to executives, to taking the helm as the Editor-in-Chief of one of Chicago’s most popular culture and entertainment magazines, to consulting on creative writing and storytelling at one of ‘The Big 4’ firms, Ahmed’s use of the pen (or keyboard) finds no obstacle when it comes to creating poignant, compelling, and consistent language. In fact, Ahmed was the orginal creator of the “Storycooking Workshop,” a 2-3 hour module-based presentation that teaches and equips participants to tell better stories and tap into their emotional power to connect with others. In the creative world, Ahmed’s first foothold was his thesis, “Pangea”, directed by former Poet Laureate of Virginia, Tim Seibles. The poems in this manuscript unpack and explore the cycles of grief and violence in his parents’ home country of Bangladesh during the time of its independence war sparked by the genocide and ethnic cleansing of Bengalis, and how these cycles present themselves now in the current American landscape. With a focus in (but not limited to) poetry, his writing falls at the intersections of grief, race, trauma, mental health, loss, love and music. His first official chapbook, “Field Guide for End Days,” was released in summer of 2020 through Finishing Line Press. His second chapbook, “Brown Boy” is available now through Porkbelly Press. The links to order these books can be found below. [CLICK HERE TO ORDER “FIELD GUIDE FOR END DAYS”] [CLICK HERE TO ORDER “BROWN BOY”] His passion for music, specifically the genres of pop-punk and emo, led him to start and lead the genre-fluid bands, Ocean Glass in 2012 and tenmonthsummer in 2023, the former of which he crated and managed social campaigns leading to multiple large venue shows selling out in Chicago. Similar to his poetry and prose, Nishat’s lyrical work aims to dissect the critical moments when our humanity is both at its best and at its worst, question the myth of a model minority as a person of color being the face of a band in his genre, and catalogue all the ways our emotions make and break us. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de4af493fbbc6593aece19f/1768452350666-DTGLR2U5HM7OE5S7RKP5/Nish-1.png Welcome https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de4af493fbbc6593aece19f/1575409095516-MQXX9XM0FO2TC7XE4WZO/TedXUIUC.jpg Welcome https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de4af493fbbc6593aece19f/1661749423684-NAND3W0E7MS0PS7U4U4Q/Headshot.JPG Welcome https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de4af493fbbc6593aece19f/1575408790375-2LHFFJBIONWHHDGZHPGS/IMG_5113.jpg Welcome https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de4af493fbbc6593aece19f/1661749415145-NGX2KVGNTSQIAOZYHZI3/_DSC2959.JPG Welcome https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de4af493fbbc6593aece19f/1684337879135-HIXKUXSZG9C18UKEW08Z/IMG_2984-Enhanced-NR.jpg Welcome https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5de4af493fbbc6593aece19f/1581372407150-U8WVPQM0VLFEUNVVN2Q7/Field+Guide+For+End+Days+Cover Welcome - The end is here. 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