The Emerging Writers Reading Series features MFA students (the “emerging writers”) from a mix of genres reading alongside a headlining author. Tonight’s headliner is Safia Elhillo, featuring the talents of Cassi Quayson, Clare Flanagan, Dasia Moore, and Farah Barqawi, and hosted by Migwi Mwangi.

The Emerging Writers Reading Series features MFA students (the “emerging writers”) from a mix of genres reading alongside a headlining author.

Open to the public. All attendees are required to RSVP in advance; please click here.

About the Author

Safia Elhillo is the author of The Life and Times of Susie Knuckles, The January Children, which received the 2016 Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets and the 2018 Arab American Book Award. Her other works include Girls That Never Die,  a novel in verse titled Home Is Not A Country that was longlisted for the National Book Award and received a Coretta Scott King Book Award Author Honor. With Fatimah Asghar, she co-edited the anthology Halal If You Hear Me. She holds fellowships from Cave Canem, The Poetry Foundation’s Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship, and a Wallace Stegner Fellowship. Her work has appeared in several journals and anthologies including The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop. Safia also serves as a poetry editor at Kinfolks Quarterly.