Hajjar Baban

Hajjar Baban is a Pakistan-born Afghan Kurdish poet. Recipient of a Pushcart Prize in poetry, she has poems appearing in and forthcoming from The Schooner, Sundog Lit, and Hayden’s Ferry Review, where she won the 2025 Poetry Contest, selected by Hieu Minh Nguyen. Baban is a co-founder of the Kurdish Poets Collective. LOW FLYING PLANES is her first full length book of poems.