About Aybike Ahmedi

Aybike Ahmedi is an Uzbek, Turkish, American writer from New Jersey. She explores her Central Asian heritage through her oral history projects and is currently writing and directing an oral history documentary on the Central Asian diaspora. She teaches Creative Writing at The City College of New York where she received her MFA in Creative Writing, and Foundational Writing at Fairleigh Dickinson University. She also works as an archival assistant to Professor William Gibbons (CCNY), processing the materials of John Henrik Clarke. Aybike is managing editor for Guernica Magazine and an editorial fellow at Teachers & Writers Magazine.

Her writing has appeared in Teachers & Writers Magazine, Whitman on Walls Anthology Vol. 2, the Cephalopress Anthology: Borders and Belonging, Archives as Muse, and Wrist Enthusiast.