Youssef Mohamed

Youssef Mohamed is a Muslim-American poet and lawyer. His poems have been featured in Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Frontier Poetry, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Ambit Magazine, New South Journal, and elsewhere. He was selected as a finalist for the 2020 Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry. He also has clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. When not writing poems or drowning in judicial opinions, he haunts local coffee shops and binge watches seasonal anime.