Tarfia Faizullah

Tarfia Faizullah
Born 1980
Brooklyn, New York City
Language English
Nationality American
Alma mater Virginia Commonwealth University
Genre Poetry
Website
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Tarfia Faizullah (born 1980) is a Bengali American poet. She won a 2009 Cohen Award.[1] Her book, Seam won the 2014 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Open Competition Awards.[2]

Life

She was born in 1980 in Brooklyn, New York City and raised in West Texas.

She graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University.

Her work appears in American Poetry Review,[3] Memorious,[4] and Blackbird.[5]

She is an editor, and lives in Detroit.

Works

  • Seam, Southern Illinois University Press, 2014, ISBN 9780809333257
  • Registers of Illuminated Villages: Poems, Gray Wolf Press, 2018, ISBN 9781555978006

In Anthology

  • Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology, University of Georgia Press, 2018, ISBN 9780820353159

References

  1. ↑ http://www.pshares.org/read/article-detail.cfm?intArticleID=9173
  2. ↑ http://www.lanternreview.com/blog/2013/03/01/a-conversation-with-tarfia-faizullah/
  3. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-02-19. Retrieved 2014-02-12.
  4. ↑ http://memorious.org/?id=213
  5. ↑ http://www.blackbird.vcu.edu/v12n2/features/faizullah_may/index_faizullah_t.shtml
  • Sean Carman (February 10, 2014). "Everything Is Near and Unforgotten: An Interview with Tarfia Faizullah". The Paris Review.
  • "Tarfia Faizullah". Poetry Foundation.



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