Hafizah Geter

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, and Origin is a New Yorker Magazine Best Book of 2022, an Amazon’s Best of the Month Editor’s Pick, winner of a 2023 PEN Open Book Award and a 2023 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ Nonfiction, and finalist for a 2023 Chautauqua Prize. She is the author of the poetry collection Un-American, an NAACP Image Award and PEN Open Book Award finalist. She is a Bread Loaf 2021 nonfiction fellow. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Bomb Magazine, Boston Review, The Believer, The Paris Review, The Funambulist, and Harper's Bazaar, among others. She is a literary agent at Janklow & Nesbit where she represents a wide array of nonfiction and literary fiction. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.