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

Ellen Lesser

Faculty, MFA in Writing [fiction]; Director, Postgraduate Writers' Conference

Harrison Candelaria Fletcher

Faculty, MFA in Writing [CNF]

Michael Croley

Faculty, MFA in Writing [fiction]

Gabino Iglesias

Faculty, MFA in Writing [fiction/CNF]

Tomás Q. Morín

Faculty, MFA in Writing [poetry]

Sue William Silverman

Faculty, MFA in Writing [CNF/poetry/hybrid forms]; Postgraduate Writers' Conference