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A reading and Q&A with acclaimed poet and RSC alum Hajar Hussaini ‘19, recent recipient of a prestigious 2026 Whiting Award in Poetry and author of Disbound Poems (University of Iowa Press, 2022). This event is funded in part by Poets & Writers with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. @PoetsAndWritersHajar Hussaini is the author of Disbound: Poems (University of Iowa Press, 2022) and the recipient of a 2026 Whiting Award in Poetry. 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 was a
2025 MacDowell fellow and a 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.
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140 New Scotland Ave, Albany, NY, United States, New York 12208
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