Born in Zaria, Nigeria, Hafizah Geter serves on the board of VIDA: Women in the Literary Arts, and co-curates the reading series EMPIRE with Ricardo Maldonado. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The New Yorker, Tin House, Narrative Magazine, Gulf Coast, Boston Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, and West Branch, among others. She is on the poetry committee and book ends committee for the Brooklyn Book Festival and is currently an editor for Little A and Day One from Amazon Publishing.
Hafizah Geter
Articles by Hafizah Geter
The PEN Ten Interview: Author William Dameron on the Artistry of Writing
“Stories are emotional food; without them, we fail to thrive. They let us know that we are not alone, and they teach us how to be human.”
“To Write is to Take Action”: A PEN Ten Interview with Diane Mehta
“To write is to take action, and then you have to follow up your words with deeds—practice kindness, form opinions, stand up for others.”
A PEN Ten Interview with Author Susan Bernhard
“Facts are provable, truths are held, like beliefs. Perception is more interesting to me—how we see a set of facts through the lenses of individual experience.”
