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Visiting Poet Tarfia Faizullah

Tarfia Faizullah
October 20, 2017
All Day
311 Denney Hall

Reading:  Friday, Oct.20, 2017 at 4:30pm in 311 Denney Hall

MFA Student Workshop:  Saturday , Oct. 21, 2017 (by pre-registration only. WORKSHOP FULL.)

Bangladeshi American poet Tarfia Faizullah grew up in Midland, Texas. She earned an MFA from the Virginia Commonwealth University program in creative writing. Her first book, Seam (2014), won the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award. Faizullah’s honors and awards include an Associated Writers Program Intro Journals Award, a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize, a Copper Nickel Poetry Prize, a Ploughshares’ Cohen Award and a Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference Margaret Bridgman Scholarship in Poetry. A Kundiman fellow, she lives in Detroit where she teaches at the University of Michigan and is an editor for the Asian American Literary Review and Organic Weapon Arts Chapbook Series. Her second book is Registers of Illuminated Villages (Graywolf Press, 2018).