Ameen (he/him) is a writer whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in Poets.org, Rattle Magazine, Salamander, and elsewhere.  A graduate of WashU’s MFA program, he is the winner of the 2025 Evaristo Prize for African Poetry and the 2024 Academy of American Poets A.E. Claeyssens Jr. Poetry Prize, and a recipient of the 2024 Starshine and Clay Fellowship. His full-length manuscript was a finalist for the 2024 Sillerman First Book Prize, and his chapbook Calling a Spade was a finalist for the 2024 Robert Phillips Poetry Chapbook Prize.

 

In his role in the Arts and Sciences Academic and Administrative Cluster, Ameen supports the department of African and African American Studies, and works to make processes clearer, steadier, and more humane for the people they serve.