Born in Zaria, Nigeria, Hafizah Geter serves on the board of VIDA: Women in the Literary Arts, co-curates the reading series EMPIRE in Brooklyn, NY with Ricardo Maldonado and is co-VP of the Women’s Caucus at AWP. Her poems have appeared 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 for the Brooklyn Book Festival and is currently an editor for Little A from Amazon Publishing.