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FAISAL MOHYUDDIN is a writer, artist, and educator. He is the author of The Displaced Children of Displaced Children (Eyewear Publishing, 2018), winner of the 2017 Sexton Prize in Poetry and a 2018 Summer Recommendation of the Poetry Book Society. Also the author of the chapbook The Riddle of Longing (Backbone Press, 2017), he is the recipient of Prairie Schooner's Edward Stanley Award, a Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize, and an Illinois Arts Council Literary Award. His work appears in The Forward Book of Poetry 2019, Prairie Schooner, the Missouri Review, wildness, Narrative, Crab Orchard Review, Poet Lore, RHINO, Tinderbox, Chicago Quarterly Review, Atlanta Review, and elsewhere. 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. An educator adviser and master practitioner for the global-not-for-profit Narrative 4, he teaches English at Highland Park High School in Illinois and at the School of Professional Studies at Northwestern University. He lives in Oak Park, Illinois.
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2017 Sexton Prize in Poetry | Judged by Kimiko Hahn
2018 Summer Recommendation | Poetry Book Society "Highly Commended" | Forward Arts Foundation Honorable Mention | Association of Asian American Studies, Book Award for Poetry, 2020 ORDER NOW: From your local independent bookstore. In the Chicago area, I recommend:
(signed copies available upon request) Read the opening poem and the story behind it: (courtesy of the Missouri Review)
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