Are You Borg Now?: 2nd Edition

This innovative Afrofuturist memoir returns in a second edition with a new introduction by Douglas Kearney. Said Shaiye's cross-genre debut Are You Borg Now? blends nonfiction and poetry in an experimental interview the author conducts with his younger self, rejecting the conventions of memoir and what is expected of who writes them, specifically when that writer is an immigrant. Are You Borg Now? cyphers with trauma through a poetics of refusal via hard and beautiful language. Finding vigor in Islam and mirrors in Star Trek: Voyager, Shaiye shifts achingly between memory and improvisation.

Said Shaiye is an Autistic + ADHD (AuDHD) Somali Writer, Photographer & Filmmaker from Galkaiyo, Nairobi, Seattle & Minneapolis. He received a MacDowell Fellowship in 2024, as well as a Minnesota State Arts Education Grant. His grant project facilitated a BIPOC Autistic Writing Workshop where members published an anthology at year's end. The first edition of Are You Borg Now? was a 2022 Minnesota Book Award Finalist in Creative Nonfiction & Memoir. He has published poetry & prose in Indiana Review, Texas Review, Obsidian, Brittle Paper, Pithead Chapel, 580 Split, Entropy, Diagram, and elsewhere. He teaches writing at several Twin Cities community colleges, as well as with Unrestricted Interest, an organization dedicated to Neurodivergent ways of being. He has probably already blocked you on everything. If he hasn't, he will definitely block you now. Yes, even at the United States Postal Service. Send all block appeals & business inquiries to www.saidshaiye.com.