Agha Shahid Ali Biography and latest books by Agha Shahid Ali

Agha Shahid Ali was a Kashmiri-American poet. His poetry collections include Call Me Ishmael Tonight: A Book of Ghazals, Rooms Are Never Finished, The Country without a Post Office, The Beloved Witness: Selected Poems, A Nostalgist\'s Map of America, A Walk through the Yellow Pages, The Half-Inch Himalayas, In Memory of Begum Akhtar, and Other Poems. His poems were published in American Alphabets: 25 Contemporary Poets.

Born in 1949 in Delhi, Agha Shahid Ali studied at the University of Kashmir and the University of Delhi. He completed a PhD in English at the Pennsylvania State University and an MFA from the University of Arizona. He taught at the MFA Program for Poets & Writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, MFA Writing Seminars at Bennington College, and Creative writing at programs at University of Utah, Baruch College, Warren Wilson College, Hamilton College and New York University. Noted Pakistani writer Kamila  Shamsie was his student at the University of Massachusetts. He died in 2001 and was buried at Northampton in Massachusetts.