Hafizah Augustus Geter is a Nigerian U.S. writer born in Zaria, Nigeria, and raised in Akron, Ohio, and Columbia, South Carolina. Her debut memoir, The Black Period: On Personhood, Race, and Origin, (Random House, 2022) is a New Yorker Magazine Best Book of 2022, a Good Morning America Anticipated Book, and winner of a 2023 PEN Open Book Award and a 2023 Lambda Literary Award. She is the author of the poetry collection Un-American, an NAACP Image Award and PEN Open Book Award finalist. She is a literary agent at Janklow & Nesbit and lives in Brooklyn, NY.
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