Said Shaiye is an Autistic + ADHD (AuDHD) Somali multidisciplinary artist.
He is a MacDowell Fellow & Minnesota State Arts Board Grant recipient for his Melanated Autistic Writing Courses.
The 2nd edition of his Minnesota Book Award Finalist memoir, Are You Borg Now?, was released by Noemi Press in 2025.
He has published poetry & prose in Indiana Review, Texas Review, Obsidian, Brittle Paper, Pithead Chapel, 580 Split, Diagram and elsewhere.
He has contributed essays to the anthologies Divergent Writers: Disability, Illness, Neurodivergence, and Ableism in Creative Writing;
Muslim American Writers at Home,
and We Are Meant to Rise: Voices for Justice from Minneapolis to the World.
He has probably blocked you on social media. It probably wasn’t your fault (or maybe it was). He really enjoys blocking people.