Faisal Mohyuddin, the son of immigrants from Pakistan, is the author of the collection The Displaced Children of Displaced Children (Eyewear, 2018), winner of the 2017 Sexton Poetry Prize and selected by the Poetry Book Society as a “Summer 2018 Recommendation,” and of the chapbook The Riddle of Longing (Backbone Press, 2017). In addition, he was a finalist in Narrative’s Eighth and Ninth Annual Poetry Contests and is the winner of the 2014 Edward Stanley Award. Mohyuddin received an MSEd from Northwestern University and an MFA from Columbia College Chicago and teaches English at Highland Park High School in Chicago, where he lives with his wife and son.
