Tarfia Faizullah

Tarfia Faizullah was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1980, and raised in Midland, Texas, by parents who had immigrated to the United States from Bangladesh in 1978. She has an MFA in creative writing from Virginia Commonwealth University. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in the Missouri mostrar más Review, Ninth Letter, Blackbird, the Massachusetts Review, the Southern Review, and elsewhere. A Kundiman fellow, she is the recipient of a Ploughshares Cohen Award, a Fulbright Fellowship, a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize, and scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Sewanee Writers' Conference, and the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, and other honors. mostrar menos