Reading and Conversation with Writers Tarfia Faizullah and Jamel Brinkley

Poet Tarfia Faizullah and author Jamel Brinkley will read from their work and take part in a moderated Q&A with Athens-Clarke County Poet Laureate Mikhayla Robinson-Smith in an event organized by The Georgia Review and the Institute for African American Studies, with support from the Center for Asian Studies and book sales by Rec Room Books. The event is part of UGA’s fourth annual Humanities Festival.

Tarfia Faizullah is the author of two poetry collections, Registers of Illuminated Villages (Graywolf, 2018) and Seam(SIU, 2014). Her writing has appeared widely in the U.S. and abroad in outlets including PBS News Hour, Huffington Post, Poetry magazine, Ms. magazine, the Academy of American Poets, Oxford American, The New Republic, The Nation, and the collection Halal If You Hear Me (Haymarket, 2019), and has been displayed at the Smithsonian, the Rubin Museum of Art, and elsewhere.

Jamel Brinkley is the author of Witness: Stories (2023, Farrar, Straus and Giroux/4th Estate), winner of the Maya Angelou Book Award, and a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, the Kirkus Prize, the Aspen Words Literary Prize, and the Joyce Carol Oates Prize. A Lucky Man: Stories (2018, Graywolf Press) was a finalist for the National Book Award, the Story Prize, the John Leonard Prize, and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award; and winner of a PEN Oakland Award and the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence.

Sponsored by Center for Asian Studies, Humanities Council, Institute for African American Studies, The Georgia Review, Willson Center for Humanities and Arts