The Lindsay Lounge: Faisal Mohyuddin

Faisal Mohyuddin is the author of The Displaced Children of Displaced Children (Eyewear, 2018) and the chapbook The Riddle of Longing (Backbone, 2017). His work has received an Illinois Arts Council Literary Award, the Edward Stanley Award from Prairie Schooner, a Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize, the Sexton Award and commendations from the Poetry Book Society and the Forward Arts Foundation. New work has appeared or is forthcoming in Chicago Quarterly Review, Shrew, Pleiades, and the anthologies The World I Leave You: Asian American Poets on Faith and Spirit (Orison Books) and New Moons: Contemporary Writing by North American Muslims (Red Hen Press). He serves as an educator advisor to the global not-for-profit Narrative 4 and teaches English at Highland Park High School in suburban Chicago. Learn more at his website: www.faisalmohyuddin.com