FAISAL MOHYUDDIN is a writer, artist, and educator from Chicago, Illinois. 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. He teaches English at Highland Park High School in Illinois, serves as an educator adviser to the global not-for-profit Narrative 4, and lives with his family in Chicago.
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2017 Sexton Prize in Poetry | Judged by Kimiko Hahn
2018 Summer Recommendation | Poetry Book Society "Highly Commended" | Forward Arts Foundation ORDER NOW: from your local independent bookstore in the Chicago area, I recommend Women and Children First (Chicago), The Book Stall (Winnetka), and The Book Table (Oak Park) or you can order from SPD | Amazon | Barnes & Noble (signed copies available upon request) Read the opening poem and the story behind it: (courtesy of the Missouri Review)
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