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.

Education

MFA | Virginia Commonwealth University

BA | University of Texas at Austin

Samuel Kọ́láwọlé

Faculty, MFA in Writing [fiction]

Nance Van Winckel

Faculty, MFA in Writing [fiction/poetry]

Melissa Faliveno

Faculty, MFA in Writing [CNF]

Betsy Sholl

Faculty, MFA in Writing [poetry]

Hasanthika Sirisena

Faculty, MFA in Writing [fiction/CNF]

Brian Leung

Faculty, MFA in Writing [fiction]