Faisal Mohyuddin's poetry, fiction, and visual art have appeared in several publications, including Prairie Schooner, the Missouri Review, Narrative, RHINO, Poet Lore, Chicago Quarterly Review, Crab Orchard Review, New England Review (online), Atlanta Review, Catamaran Literary Reader, the minnesota review, Tinderbox, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, and Hair Trigger. His poetry is anthologized in Indivisible: An Anthology of Contemporary South Asian American Poetry (University of Arkansas Press), The Book of Donuts (Terrapin Books), and Misrepresented People: Poets Respond to Trump's America (New York Quarterly Books). He received the 2014 Edward Stanley Award from Prairie Schooner, a 2017 Gwendolyn Brook Poetry Prize, and a 2019 Illinois Arts Council Literary Award; and he was a finalist in Narrative's Eighth and Ninth Annual Poetry Contests in 2016 and 2017. His chapbook of poems, The Riddle of Longing, was published in 2017 by Backbone Press. His first full-length collection, The Displaced Children of Displaced Children, was selected by Kimiko Hahn as the winner of the 2017 Sexton Prize and came out April 2018 from Eyewear Publishing.
The child of immigrants from Pakistan, Faisal received his undergraduate degree from Carleton College, an MS in education from Northwestern University, and an MFA in fiction writing from Columbia College Chicago. He has taught English at Highland Park High School in Highland Park, Illinois, since 2003, and will be teaching for the School of Professional Studies at Northwestern University during the Spring 2020 quarter. He continues to serve as educator adviser and master practitioner for Narrative 4, a global not-for-profit dedicated to empathy-building and barrier-breaking through the exchange of stories. He is an alumnus of the U.S. Department of State's Fulbright Teachers for Global Classrooms (TGC) Program; as part of this fellowship, Faisal traveled to and studied in Senegal in April 2016. He has been recognized for innovative teaching by Microsoft and has twice been a National Endowment for the Humanities summer teaching fellow. As a visual artist, Faisal regularly showcases his work in the Chicago area, including in the recent Ta'weez Project No. 1, an exhibition with fellow artists Zafar Malik and Sadia Uqaili.
The child of immigrants from Pakistan, Faisal received his undergraduate degree from Carleton College, an MS in education from Northwestern University, and an MFA in fiction writing from Columbia College Chicago. He has taught English at Highland Park High School in Highland Park, Illinois, since 2003, and will be teaching for the School of Professional Studies at Northwestern University during the Spring 2020 quarter. He continues to serve as educator adviser and master practitioner for Narrative 4, a global not-for-profit dedicated to empathy-building and barrier-breaking through the exchange of stories. He is an alumnus of the U.S. Department of State's Fulbright Teachers for Global Classrooms (TGC) Program; as part of this fellowship, Faisal traveled to and studied in Senegal in April 2016. He has been recognized for innovative teaching by Microsoft and has twice been a National Endowment for the Humanities summer teaching fellow. As a visual artist, Faisal regularly showcases his work in the Chicago area, including in the recent Ta'weez Project No. 1, an exhibition with fellow artists Zafar Malik and Sadia Uqaili.