Writer | Artist | Educator
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Author of the poetry collection The Displaced Children of Displaced Children Now out from Eyewear Publishing 2017 Sexton Prize in Poetry (Judged by Kimiko Hahn) 2018 Summer Recommendation of the Poetry Book Society ORDER NOW: SPD | Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Eyewear 
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Read the opening poem and the story behind it: (courtesy of the Missouri Review)
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, and the chapbook The Riddle of Longing (Backbone Press, 2017). The recipient of Prairie Schooner's Edward Stanley Award and a Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize, his work appears in the Missouri Review, 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 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 and serves as an educator adviser to the global not-for-profit Narrative 4.
Faisal is also the author of the chapbook
The Riddle of Longing (Backbone Press, 2017) 
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