Tarfia Faizullah

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Bangladeshi-American poet, editor, and educator Tarfia Faizullah was born in 1980 in Brooklyn, NY and raised in west Texas. She received an MFA in poetry from Virginia Commonwealth University and is the author of Seam (SIU 2014), which U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey calls “beautiful and necessary,” as well as Register of Eliminated Villages, (Graywolf 2017).

Prize anthology mentions

Pushcart (Poetry) 2015

Pushcart (Poetry) 2017

Pushcart (Poetry) 2018

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