Leila Chatti

Deluge

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This stunning debut blends personal narrative, religious imagery, and pop culture in a chronicle of illness, womanhood, and faith.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Copper Canyon Press
• Seitenzahl: 74
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. April 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 179mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 215g
• ISBN-13: 9781556595899
• ISBN-10: 1556595891
• Artikelnr.: 57166662

Autorenporträt

Leila Chatti is a Tunisian-American woman from East Lansing, Michigan. Born to a Catholic mother and Muslim father, Chatti's life has been greatly impacted by religion and poetry. She has published two chapbooks: Ebb is included in Akashic Books' 2018 New Generation of African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set, and Tunsiya/Amrikiya was the 2017 Editor's Selection from Bull City Press. She has received multiple scholarships, grants, and awards, including the 2015 Academy of American Poets University Prize, an Artist in Residence Grant through the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico, and recognition in Narrative Magazine's 30 Below 30. Chatti's work was shortlisted for the 2017 Brunel International African Poetry Prize. Chatti currently lives in Cleveland, Ohio, where she is the inaugural Anisfield-Wolf Fellow in Publishing and Writing at Cleveland State University.