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    Hafizah Augustus Geter

    Hafizah Augustus Geter is a Nigerian American writer, poet, and literary agent born in Zaria, Nigeria, and raised in Akron, Ohio, and Columbia, South Carolina. She is the author of the poetry collection Un-American, an NAACP Image Award and PEN Open Book Award finalist. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Bomb, The Believer, The Paris Review, among many others. The poetry committee co-chair of the Brooklyn Literary Council, she is a Bread Loaf Katharine Bakeless nonfiction fellow, a Cave Canem poetry fellow, and a 92Y Women inPower Fellow and holds an MFA in nonfiction from New York University, where she was an Axinn Fellow. Hafizah lives in Brooklyn, New York.
    The Black Period
    The Black Period
    On Personhood, Race, and Origin
    Hafizah Augustus Geter
    9780593448663
    $22.00 US
    Paperback
    Sep 26, 2023
    Random House Trade Paperbacks

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    The Black Period
    The Black Period
    On Personhood, Race, and Origin
    Hafizah Augustus Geter
    9780593448663
    $22.00 US
    Paperback
    Sep 26, 2023
    Random House Trade Paperbacks

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