Hafizah Augustus Geter is a Nigerian/U.S. writer born in Zaria, Nigeria, and raised in Ohio and South Carolina. She is a Hawthornden fellow in fiction, a Civitella Ranieri nonfiction fellow, a Bread Loaf Katherine Bakeless nonfiction fellow, and a Cave Canem poetry fellow. Her memoir, The Black Period: On Personhood, Race & Origin (Random House), won a PEN Open Book Award, and a Lammy Award in LGBTQ+ Nonfiction from Lambda Literary, and was a New Yorker Magazine Best Book, a Good Morning America Anticipated Book, an Amazon’s Best of the Month Editor’s Pick, and a finalist for the Chautauqua Prize. She is the author of the poetry collection Un-American (Wesleyan), nominated for a NAACP Image Award, finalist for the PEN Open Book Award, and longlisted for a Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize. She is a literary agent at Janklow & Nesbit where she represents a diverse range of fiction and nonfiction. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.
