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Seema Yasmin
Young PeopleSeema Yasmin is an Emmy Award-winning journalist, Pulitzer Prize finalist, standup comedian, and poet. A queer, Gujarati-Muslim writer and director, she is a fiction fellow of the Kundiman and Tin House workshops, and a playwright in the playwright's lab at Soho Theatre in London. Seema is the author of eight books for adults and children, including: Muslim Women Are Everything (HarperCollins, 2021), The ABCs of Queer History (Hachette, 2024), and the poetry collection, If God is a Virus (Haymarket, 2021). Her forthcoming titles include the picture book Inshallah, and the middle grade series Muslim Mavericks (both Simon and Schuster, 2026). Seema trained in medicine at the University of Cambridge, in journalism at the University of Toronto, and in clown at The Clown School and Idiot Workshop in Los Angeles. She served as an officer in the U.S. government’s Epidemic Intelligence Service, and as a medical analyst for CNN from 2014-2021 where she covered outbreaks of Ebola, Zika and Covid. Seema is director of the Stanford Health Communication Initiative and clinical assistant professor of medicine at Stanford University where she studies the spread of anti-science disinformation, and teaches storytelling. Seema is adapting her debut young adult novel, Unbecoming (Simon and Schuster, 2024), for the screen, and is at work on her second young adult novel, a climate-djinn horror story titledThe Voices. She lives in Las Vegas.
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