Ellen Lesser
Faculty, MFA in Writing [fiction]; Director, Postgraduate Writers' Conference
Tarfia Faizullah
Faculty, MFA in Writing [poetry]
Profile
Tarfia Faizullah is the author of two award-winning poetry collections, Registers of Illuminated Villages (Graywolf, 2018) and Seam (SIU, 2014). Her writing appears widely in periodicals and magazines in the US and abroad and has been displayed at the Smithsonian, the Rubin Museum of Art, and elsewhere. Tarfia’s writing is translated into Spanish, Bengali, Persian, Chinese, Tamil, and other languages. Born in Brooklyn, NY, to Bangladeshi immigrants and raised in Texas, Tarfia currently lives in Dallas.
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Education
MFA | Virginia Commonwealth University
BA | University of Texas at Austin
BA | University of Texas at Austin