Aybike Ahmedi

Aybike Ahmedi is an Uzbek, Turkish, Muslim American writer. Her work is inspired through her Central Asian heritage and oral history projects exploring the Turkestan diaspora. She teaches at The City College of New York where she received her MFA in Creative Writing. She’s an Editorial Fellow at Teachers & Writers Magazine, and has previously served as Managing Editor for Guernica Magazine and mentor at Girls Write Now. Her writing has appeared in Teachers & Writers Magazine The Best of 2024-2025, Whitman on Walls Anthology Vol. 2, the Cephalopress Anthology: Borders and Belonging, Archives as Muse, and Wrist Enthusiast.