About

Rana Tahir is a poet, author and educator living in Portland, OR. She is of Pakistani origin and grew up in Kuwait. Earning her MFA from Pacific University, She is a Kundiman Fellow and member of RAWI. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming from Salt Hill Journal, Bahr Magazine, Poetry Online, West Trade Review, and Quarterly West among others.

She is the author of three books, a textbook on the life and work of Harlem Renaissance poet Countee Cullen, a Choose Your Own Adventure Novel based on the life of World War II Heroine Noor Inayat Khan, and a Choose Your Own Adventure novel based on the fourth season of the Netflix show Stranger Things. A long-time Tarot practitioner, she wrote the guidebook to Choose Your Own Adventure’s first Tarot deck.