A Man Named Creed
BIO: Saadia Ali Aschemann was born in the early 1970s to overachieving parents who prayed that their daughter would not grow up to be a poet.
Saadia earned her B.A. in government and politics from George Mason University and her M.A. in education from the University of Illinois. She is the author of three collections of poetry, lavish lines/luscious lies (2007), Words Gone Wild(2008), and Vice & Verse(2010).
She lives and writes in West Central Illinois.