Tarfia Faizullah, 37th Annual ODU Literary Festival

TARFIA FAIZULLAH is the author of Seam (Southern Illinois University Press, 2014), winner of the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award. Her poems appear in American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, The Missouri Review, The Southern Review, New England Review, and elsewhere. A Kundiman fellow, she received her MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University. Honors include a Ploughshares Cohen Award, a Fulbright fellowship and a Copper Nickel Poetry Prize. In fall 2014, she joins the University of Michigan as the Nicholas Delbanco Visiting Professor in Poetry