She received her MFA from Warren Wilson College. Her poetry has appeared in Prairie Schooner, Poetry International, Vallum, Atlanta Review, Nimrod, The Bitter Oleander, Journal of Postcolonial Writings, The Cortland Review, The Adirondack Review, New Millennium Writings, Universe: A United Nations of Poets, Drunken Boat, Split this Rock, Hubbub and many others. Her essays on eastern poetic forms such as the Ghazal and Qasida have been published in the Journal of Contemporary World Literature, and her essays have appeared in the Washington Post, Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies and Knot magazine. In 2010, Poetic Matrix Press published Hashmi’s book “Baker of Tarifa,” which won the 2011 San Diego Book Award for poetry. Eleanor Wilner called Hashmi’s poems “luminous.” Her latest book is “Kohl & Chalk.” Many of Hashmi’s poems explore feminism, history and perspectives on Islam.