Writer's Voice presents Farnaz Fatemi, Poetry

Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024, 7:30–8:30 p.m.

Farnaz Fatemi, an Iranian American poet and writer and Santa Cruz County Poet Laureate for 2023 & 2024, is a founding member of The Hive Poetry Collective, a member of Writers of Color – Santa Cruz County, and a former Lecturer in Writing at UCSC. In summers she teaches new transfer students in UCSC's Transfer Edge program.

Her book, Sister Tongue زﺑﺎن ﺧواھر, was published in September 2022. It won the Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize, selected by Tracy K. Smith, won an honorable mention from the Foreword Indies, and received a Starred Review from Publisher's Weekly. She is a California Individual Artist Fellow and an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow. Some of her poems and lyric essays appear or are forthcoming in Alaska Quarterly Review, No Tokens Journal, Nowruz Journal, Pedestal Review, Poets.org, Tab Journal, and Tupelo Quarterly, among others. More at farnazfatemi.com.

Free & open to the public. Masks are welcome.

The reading will be followed by a Q & A and author book signing.

The Writer's Voice is California State University, Chico's literary arts reading series. Funded by contributions from the Department of English and the College of Humanities and Fine Arts, the Writer's Voice introduces contemporary writers to citizens of the North Valley.

For more information contact Dr. Jeanne E. Clark, Professor of English, jeclark2@csuchico.edu.

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