Posted on August 30, 2023
The MFA Writing Program at UNC Greensboro and The Greensboro Review will host a poetry & fiction reading by Dilruba Ahmed and Thomas Calder on Friday, October 27th at 6:00 PM at at Scuppernong Books, 304 S. Elm Street. The event is free and open to the public and will be followed by a book signing.
DILRUBA AHMED is the author of Bring Now the Angels, with poems featured in New York Times Magazine, The Slowdown, and Poetry Unbound with Pádraig Ó Tuama. Her debut book of poetry, Dhaka Dust, won the Bakeless Prize. Her poems have appeared in Kenyon Review, New England Review, and Ploughshares. Her poems have also been anthologized in The Best American Poetry 2019 (Scribner), New Moons: Contemporary Writing by North American Muslims (Red Hen), Literature: The Human Experience (Bedford/St. Martin’s) and elsewhere. Ahmed is the recipient of The Florida Review’s Editors’ Award, a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Memorial Prize, and the Katharine Bakeless Nason Fellowship in Poetry awarded by the Bread Loaf Writers Conference. She holds degrees from the University of Pittsburgh and Warren Wilson College’s MFA Program for Writers. She has taught with Chatham University’s MFA Program, Hugo House in Seattle, Swarthmore College, and in workshops across the U.S. In January 2021, Ahmed joined the faculty at Warren Wilson College’s MFA Program for Writers.
THOMAS CALDER is the author of the novel, The Wind Under the Door. His work has appeared in Gulf Coast, Miracle Monocle, The Collagist and elsewhere. He lives in Asheville, North Carolina with his wife, daughter and dog.
