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 & Origin, won the 2023 PEN Open Book Award and a 2023 Lammy Award in LGBTQ+ Nonfiction from Lambda Literary, and was a New Yorker Best Book, Good Morning America Anticipated Book, Amazon’s Best of the Month Editor’s Pick, and finalist for the Chautauqua Prize. She is the author of the poetry collection Un-American, nominated for a NAACP Image Award, finalist for the PEN Open Book Award, and longlisted for a Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize. She is an agent at Janklow & Nesbit.
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