ICA SADAGAT is a poet, educator, and interdisciplinary artist. A former social worker and crisis counselor, ica’s writing inquires the body as text and text as matter and matter as collective ritual.

Ica has taught AND/OR performed at Swiss Institute / contemporary art new york, Thinking its Presence, Columbia University, Smith college, Bureau of General Services—Queer Division, UC Santa Cruz, Studio Museum 127, VCU, and more. Ica received her MFA in Creative Writing at California Institute of the Arts as the truman capote Literary fellow. currently, she teaches at new jersey city university in the english department.

Before and beyond that, Ica fights and ica surfs.