Sagirah Shahid is a Black American Muslim poet and performance artist from Minneapolis, Minnesota. She was a 2015 recipient of a Loft Literary Center's Mentor Series award in poetry and was a 2020 winner the American Muslim Futures award. Sagirah's prose and poetry have been published in Mizna, Prose Online, KHÔRA, Juked, Paranoid Tree, About Place Journal, and elsewhere.