Faisal Mohyuddin
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Faisal Mohyuddin is a writer, artist, and educator. He is the author of The Displaced Children of Displaced Children, and the chapbook, The Riddle of Longing. The recipient of Prairie Schooner’s Edward Stanley Award and a Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize, his work appears in the Missouri Review, Narrative, Crab Orchard Review, Poet Lore, RHINO, Tinderbox, Chicago Quarterly Review, Atlanta Review, and elsewhere. An alumnus of the U.S. Department of State’s Teachers for Global Classrooms program, Faisal is a graduate of Carleton College, Northwestern University, and Columbia College Chicago. r r He teaches English at Highland Park High School in Illinois and, since 2003, has served as an educator adviser to Narrative 4, the global not-for-profit dedicated to empathy-building and barrier-breaking through the exchange of stories. He is an alumnus of the U.S. Department of State’s Teachers for Global Classrooms (TGC) Program; as part of this global education fellowship, Faisal traveled to and studied in Senegal in April 2016. He has been recognized for innovative teaching by Microsoft and has twice been a National Endowment for the Humanities summer teaching fellow. r r As a visual artist, Faisal regularly showcases his work in the Chicago area, including in the recent Ta’weez Project No. 1, an exhibition with fellow artists Zafar Malik and Sadia Uqaili.r
Other Awards | The Displaced Children of Displaced Children
Elsewhere: An Elegy | The displaced children of displaced children /