The hand
behind the pen.

Nishat's poetry is rooted in his MFA thesis "Pangea" — directed by former Poet Laureate of Virginia Tim Seibles — which unpacks cycles of grief and violence in Bangladesh during its independence war, and how those cycles echo in the current American landscape.

With a focus in (but not limited to) poetry, his writing falls at the intersections of grief, race, trauma, mental health, loss, love, and music. He was the recipient of the 2018 ODU–Poetry Society of Virginia–Academy of American Poets College Poetry Prize.