Tarfia Faizullah is a graduate student in Virginia Commonwealth University’s MFA program in poetry, as well as the associate editor of Blackbird: an online journal of literature and the arts. In 2007, she was named an AWP Intro Journals Award Winner, and in 2006, she was named a Writers at Work Fellowship Finalist. Her poems have appeared in or are forthcoming in The Adirondack Review, Diode, Green Mountains Review, Harpur Palate, and Mid-American Review.