Kaur Alia Ahmed is an artist, writer, and cook living in New York. He is interested in destabilizing language, handling it in a way akin to his use of materials such as ink, skin, light. His work has been presented at Interstate Projects, 77 Mulberry, Alyssa Davis Gallery, Island gallery, Entrance Gallery, and the Drawing Center. His poems can be found in the Poetry Project Newsletter, Spoil Magazine, baest Journal, Bomb Magazine, Rhizome, and his first manuscript, Cursive Paradise, was released this June with Wendy's Subway.