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Samiha Hoque

Samiha Hoque

Brooklyn,

 New York,

 United States

She/Her/Hers

2025 Climate Justice Fellow

My Super Hero Is:

My grandfather. Although I never met him, he founded a school for orphans that still operates today.

Bio:

Samiha Hoque is a Bangladeshi-American environmentalist and co-founder of the independent publishing house Shaherazad Shelves. She was a Climate Justice Fellow at the University of Maryland in 2024 and holds a B.S. in the Earth and Environmental Sciences with an English minor. Her debut novel, Slums of Paradise, was selected as a winner of the She Writes Press STEP contest and is forthcoming in Summer 2026. She is a Master’s candidate at NYU’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, studying the intersection of environmental conservation in medieval religious poetry. Samiha’s essays have won the Dean Myrtle Saxon-Jacobson Award in Expository Prose and were nominated for the 2021 Brooklyn Non Fiction Prize. She resides in Brooklyn, New York, where she was born and raised.

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