Bobuq Sayed is a cultural worker from the Afghan diaspora. They are the author of A Brief History of Australian Terror, a chapbook of essays published by Common Room editions, and No God But Us, a novel on queer migration forthcoming from Harper Books in early 2026.

They were a 2022-23 Steinbeck fellow at San José State University, and they are the co-editor of an anthology called Nothing to Hide: Voices of Trans and Gender Diverse Australia (Allen and Unwin).

A graduate of the University of Miami's MFA program in Creative Writing, they have received fellowships and support from the Australia Council, Lambda Literary, Tin House, Kundiman, Exchange for Change, the Wheeler Centre, the American Council for Learned Societies, and the VONA/Voices Foundation. Bobuq is represented by Maria Cardona Serra at Aevitas Creative Management.