FORT WAYNE, Ind. – Award-winning poet Leila Chatti will be featured as part of the Sullivan Reading Series at the University of Saint Francis.
Chatti will present a public reading at 6:30 p.m. April 9 at the USF Business Center’s Cyber Café at the university’s downtown location, 826 Ewing St. The event is free.
Chatti, a Tunisian-American dual citizen, is the author of the chapbooks Ebb (New-Generation African Poets) and Tunsiya/Amrikiya, the 2017 Editors’ Selection from Bull City Press. She lives in Cleveland, Ohio, where she is the inaugural Anisfield-Wolf Fellow in Writing and Publishing at Cleveland State University. She also serves as Consulting Poetry Editor at the Raleigh Review.
Chatti holds a BA from the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities at Michigan State University and an MFA from North Carolina State University, where she was awarded the Academy of American Poets Prize. Her poems have received recognition from Ploughshares’ Emerging Writer’s Contest, Narrative’s 30 Below Contest, the Gregory O’Donoghue International Poetry Prize, and more. In 2017, she was the first North African poet to be shortlisted for the Brunel International African Poetry Prize.
Her poetry has appeared in Best New Poets (2015 and 2017), Ploughshares, Tin House, American Poetry Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Georgia Review, New England Review, Kenyon Review Online, Narrative, The Rumpus, and other journals and anthologies.
For more information, please contact Angie Springer at 260-399-7700, ext. 8100 or aspringer@sf.edu.
Founded in 1890 in the Catholic Franciscan tradition, the University of Saint Francis offers more than 70 undergraduate, graduate and doctoral programs through the School of Health Sciences, School of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Keith Busse School of Business and Entrepreneurial Leadership and School of Creative Arts. In addition to its traditional programs, USF designs focused curricula for working adults in Fort Wayne, Crown Point and online. USF Downtown houses the university’s business and music technology programs while offering enhanced internship and networking opportunities for students. The University of Saint Francis campus experience includes 16 athletic programs boasting two individual and four team NAIA national championships, and is recognized as an NAIA Five-Star Champion of Character institution. Approximately 2,200 students from a broad geographic region attend USF.