{about}
Aïcha {a-yee-sha} makes things.
She has travelled and lived in countries across the world since she was a child, and calls home wherever water is near. She is fluent in French, Wolof, English, and can hold a conversation in Spanish.
Aïcha likes to drown in waters that look like pages, and sound like melodies, and scintillate like multicolored art. She writes about womanhood, culture, identity, mental illness, race, about loving until it hurts (and spoiler alert— it often does). If it has a pulse, in short, she will write about it.
Aïcha is a member of the African Speculative Fiction Society.
Find more of her personal essays and critiques on her other website, Maelstrom.
Where She’s Been
COLUMBIA COLLEGE CHICAGO
BA in Music/Creative Writing
*magna cum laude*
2015-2019
UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL
Minor in Cinema
2014-2014
UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL
BA in Communications
2010-2013
What She’s Done
NEW HARBINGER PUBLICATIONS
Acquisitions Editor
[Nov 2023 - Present]
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PAGE STREET PUBLISHING
Associate Editor
[Jan 2021 - Oct 2023]
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PAGE STREET PUBLISHING
Editorial Assistant
[Jul 2020 - Jan 2021]
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THE NASIONA
co-EIC, Creative Director, Co-Founder
[Apr 2020 - Present]
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SUPERMAKER
Contributor
[Feb 2020 - Jul 2020]
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THE NASIONA
Managing Editor + Producer
[Mar 2019 - Present]
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RECKONING PRESS
Editorial Team
[May 2018 - Present]
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FLAPPERHOUSE
Junior Editorial Consultant
[May 2018 - Jan 2019]
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STRANGE HORIZONS
First Reader
[May 2018 - Nov 2018]
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L’ARGOT, THE ART HISTORY MAGAZINE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTRÉAL
Art Columnist
[Jan 2015 - May 2018]