FAISAL MOHYUDDIN is a writer, educator, and visual artist. He is the author of Elsewhere: An Elegy (Next Page Press, 2024) and of The Displaced Children of Displaced Children, (Eyewear, 2018), which won the 2017 Sexton Prize in Poetry, and was selected as a 2018 Summer Recommendation of the Poetry Book Society and named a "highly commended" collection of the year by the Forward Arts Foundation; it went on to receive an Honorable Mention in the Association of Asian American Studies 2020 Book Award for Poetry. Faisal is also the author of the chapbook The Riddle of Longing (Backbone Press, 2017; expanded edition forthcoming from Bull City Press in 2026).
His work has received Prairie Schooner's Edward Stanley Award, a Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize from the Illinois State Library, and an Illinois Arts Council Literary Award. His recent work appears in Mizna, Poetry, Poet Lore, Kweli, The Margins, Pleiades, Chicago Quarterly Review, and RHINO. His visual art has been exhibited in several shows and galleries and is featured on the covers of New Moons: Contemporary Writing by North American Muslims, edited by Kazim Ali (Red Hen Press, 2021), and of Our Echo of Sudden Mercy by Hari Alluri (Next Page Press, 2022). He teaches high school English in suburban Chicago and creative writing at Northwestern University's School of Professional Studies; he also serves as an educator adviser and master practitioner for the global-not-for-profit Narrative 4. An alumnus of the U.S. Department of State's Fulbright Teachers for Global Classrooms program, Faisal is a graduate of Carleton College, Northwestern University, and Columbia College Chicago. Photo by Wendy Alas / @wendyalasphotography |
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