Vermont Studio Center will host a Visiting Writer Reading with Tarfia Faizullah as a part of the Visiting Writers Program. On Thursday, April 27, 7:00 – 8:00 PM, the reading will take place in the Red Mill Building in Johnson, VT. The following morning, Friday, April 28, 10:00 – 11:00 AM, Faizullah will present a writing craft talk in Mason House Library.

Tarfia Faizullah is the author of two award-winning poetry collections, Registers of Illuminated Villages (Graywolf, 2018) and Seam (SIU, 2014). Her writing has appeared 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, Faizullah currently lives in Dallas.

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The 2023 Visiting Writers Program is generously supported by The Rona Jaffe Foundation.

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