is a New York-based Bangladeshi journalist, poet and educator. She is a contributing reporter for the New York Times, The Guardian, and The Washington Post among other publications.
Her poetry appears on HBO, All Arts TV, No Dear Magazine and Button Poetry among other platforms.
Photo: Tejeshwar Gurram
Recent Work
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Behind the Killings of Homeless Men, Portraits of 3 Lives Derailed
The New York Times, March 2022 (Print)
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Takeout with Lisa Ling
HBO commissioned the piece Mothers and Oceans
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Life and death underground: N.Y. immigrants perish in flooded basements
The Washington Post, September 2021 (Print)
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A Victorious Drive for Debt Relief
The Washington Post, November 2021 (Print)
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‘They tell you what you want to hear’: people buying fake vaccine cards get scammed themselves
The Guardian, November 2021
Samira graduated from Columbia Journalism School in 2017, Grinnell College in 2012,
and Mahindra United World College of India (currently UWCMC) in 2008.