(Take note that our usual fourth Wednesday event for November is moved to December 2nd, due to the Thanksgiving Holiday.)
Tarfia Faizullah, a Bangladeshi American with an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth U., won the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award forSeam. It explores the lives of thebirangona, Bangladeshi women raped by Pakistani soldiers during the Liberation War of 1971. She co-directs Organic Weapon Arts in Detroit and teaches creative writing at University of Michigan.