Rabih Ahmed is a Ghanaian-American Muslim poet and educator from The Bronx. Her poetry is rooted in the oral traditions and histories of the African diaspora. She was first recognized by the NYC Department of Education, where she was commissioned to South Africa to meet Nelson Mandela. For the past 15 years, Rabih has performed her poetry throughout the U.S at renowned venues such as the Apollo Theater, Lincoln Center, and the Nuyorican Poets Cafe.

Rabih was a 2022 BRIO Award winner in Literature, a 2020 BRIO Award winner in Performance Art, and a 2019 Poets House Fellow. Her work appears on Literary Hub, Poets House, and BronxNet TV. Her poetry has been published in Obsidian, Freedom School, and was longlisted in Palette Poetry. She has received support from Cave Canem, Winter Tangerine, and Arquetopia Foundation where she was granted an artist residency in Oaxaca, Mexico.

Since 2017, Rabih has been an educator in the non-profit sector and the NYC public school system. She founded LOVE LIGHT & POETRY, to provide accessible creative writing workshops to marginalized communities on the peripheries of the literary world. She currently continues her work in the Greater Los Angeles area.