Hafizah Geter is a poet and writer whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, Tin House, Boston Review, Longreads, and McSweeneys Indelible in the Hippocampus. She’s also an editor with Little A and TOPPLE Books, working on projects such as Bobi Conn’s In The Shadow of the Valley and Melissa Faliveno’s Tomboyland. But Hafizah stopped by the Jam Bunker to talk with Brad about her book Un-American, which is a memoir in poems about the challenges of the lives of her immigrant mother and her American father.
So, join Brad and Hafizah as they discuss small town America, art, race, poetry, and the difficulty in keeping indoor plants alive in the pandemic.
About Hafizah Geter
Born in Zaria, Nigeria, Hafizah Geter is a Nigerian-American poet, writer, and editor. She received her BA in English and economics from Clemson University and an MFA in poetry from Columbia College Chicago. Hafizah’s poetry and prose have appeared in The New Yorker, Tin House, Boston Review, Longreads, and McSweeney’s Indelible in the Hippocampus, among others.
An editor for Little A and TOPPLE Books from Amazon Publishing, Hafizah serves on the planning committee for the Brooklyn Book Festival and lives in Brooklyn, New York where she is working on a novel about coming to America and a full-length nonfiction project about the intersection of anti-blackness, climate change, language, borders, and the aftermath of American slavery in daily life.
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