Join us for a reading and conversation with Whiting Award winner, Hajar Hussaini.
Hajar Hussaini is the author of Disbound: Poems (University of Iowa Press, 2022), a debut collection that traces the flow of international commodities implied in a plosive consonant, and an image of the world's nations convening to reject the full stop, retrieving a personal history between countries and languages that has been disrupted by war, governments, and media.
Her translations from Persian include Death and His Brother: A Novel by Khosraw Mani (Syracuse University Press, 2027), which won a 2025 PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant, and Wounded Vita Nuda: Poems by Maral Taheri (Deep Vellum, 2027), which won the 2024 Mo Habib Translation Prize.
She is the recipient of a 2026 Whiting Award in Poetry and was a 2025 MacDowell fellow and 2025 Baldwin for the Arts Fellow.
Hussaini also co-curates the Salon Salvage performance and reading series in Troy, NY.
A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, she is an assistant teaching professor of English at Skidmore College and lives in Saratoga Springs, NY.
[Bio source: https://www.hajarhussaini.com/]
More UI EVENTS:
Hajar Hussaini KEYNOTE LECTURE, Translating Afghanistan Conference | SEPTEMBER 1 | 2026 | 7 PM
IOWA MEMORIAL UNION | INTERNATIONAL BALLROOMPOETRY WORKSHOP | SEPTEMBER 2 | 2026 | 2-4 PM
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