Amatan Noor is a Bangladeshi writer based in Brooklyn, NY. She spent her adolescence in southern New Jersey. Her poetry appears or is forthcoming in Split This Rock, Diode Poetry Journal, DIALOGIST, Thimble, No, Dear and elsewhere. Amatan’s work has been nominated for a Pushcart prize and the Best of the Net anthology. She is a Tin House alumna. Amatan’s work has been supported by the Poetry Society of New York and Brooklyn Poets. She is the author of Not Guilty, her debut chapbook (2023, Finishing Line Press).

Amatan’s work exlores the themes of dislocation, identity, diaspora, Islam, fragmented histories and multitudes pertaining to womanhood. Amatan lives in Clinton Hill and is in an ongoing love affair with Fort Greene Park.

Photography: Tamanna Islam