Hafizah Augustus Geter is a Nigerian/U.S. writer born in Zaria, Nigeria, and raised in Ohio and South Carolina. Her memoir, The Black Period: On Personhood, Race, and Origin is a New Yorker Magazine Best Book of 2022, an Amazon’s Best of the Month Editor’s Pick, finalist for a 2023 Chautauqua Prize, and winner of a 2023 PEN Open Book Award and a 2023 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ Nonfiction. She is the author of the poetry collection Un-American, an NAACP Image Award and PEN Open Book Award finalist. She a Bread Loaf 2021 nonfiction fellow. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.

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