Hafizah Augustus Geter
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Hafizah Augustus Geter

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Hafizah Augustus Geter is a Nigerian American poet and writer born in Zaria, Nigeria, and raised in Akron, Ohio, and Columbia, South Carolina. She is the author of the memoir, THE BLACK PERIOD: ON PERSONHOOD, RACE & ORIGIN, forthcoming from Random House, September 20, 2022, and the poetry collection UN-AMERICAN from Wesleyan University Press, nominated for a 2021 NAACP Image award, a finalist for the 2021 PEN Open Book Award, and longlisted for the 2021 Brooklyn Library Literary Prize. Her writing has appeared in, The New Yorker, BOMB Magazine, The Believer, and Paris Review, among others. Hafizah holds a BA in English and economics from Clemson University; an MFA in poetry from Columbia College Chicago; and an MFA in nonfiction from New York University where she was an Axinn Fellow in Creative Narrative Nonfiction. She is a literary agent at Janklow & Nesbit.


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