Fatima Shaik

Fatima Shaik has written for The Southern Review, Callaloo, Tribes, The Root, In These Times, the Review of Contemporary Fiction, and The New York Times. She is the author, most recently, of Economy Hall: The Hidden History of a Free Black Brotherhood (“lyrical and mysterious and always captivating” NY Times) and included in several anthologies including Streetlights: Illuminating Tales of the Urban Black Experience (Penguin) and Breaking Ice: An Anthology of Contemporary African American Fiction (Penguin-Viking). She is the recipient of grants from the NEH, LEH and the Kittredge Fund and the subject of an upcoming documentary, The Bengali, by director Kavery Kaul. She founded the Communication Department at Saint Peter’s University and served as Assistant Professor until 2020. A former board member of The Writers Room, Shaik is the co-chair of the Children’s and Young Adult Books committee for PEN America.