fahima ife (b. San Bernardino, California, 1983) is an American poet, essayist, and professor. She practices an embodied poetics and writes from the wild feminine. She writes about decolonial intimacy, sensuality, nature, metaphysics, spirituality, beauty, and healing.

She completed her Ph.D. in 2016 at the University of Wisconsin Madison's School of Education with an emphasis in Languages, Literacies, & Cultures and a minor in English Rhetoric. Her teaching is an opportunity for her to be of service to her students, to share what she has learned about living/embodying continuous creative practice, and to co-create ways of experiencing the creative process together. For the past 16 years, fahima has taught in numerous settings. From 2016-2022, she was an assistant professor of English at Louisiana State University. Since 2022, she is associate professor of Creative-Making at the University of California Santa Cruz in the Division of Humanities in the department of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies where she teaches classes on creative practice, process, poetry and poetics. 

She is author of Septet for the Luminous Ones (Wesleyan University Press, 2024) which was a finalist for the 44th annual Northern California Book Awards and the 2024 Big Other Book Awards, the chapbook abalone (Albion Books, 2023), Maroon Choreography (Duke University Press, 2021) winner of the Duke University Press First Book Award, and other poems and essays that appear in the Kenyon Review, mercury firs, Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora, The Brooklyn Rail, Interim, Air/Light, Poetry Daily,  American Academy of Poets Poem-A-Day, and other places. Recent performances include: Solarities 5 at Duke University, The Poetry Foundation, The Library of Congress, The Museum of the African Diaspora, The Center for African American Poetry and Poetics, The Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Her work has been written about in the New York Times, The Poetry Foundation, Fugue Journal, The Poetry Society, and Brooklyn Poets.

She lives in a village on the northern Monterey Bay coast in California.