Mariam Zafar is a recent graduate of the MFA in Creative Writing Program at The New School in NYC. A marketeer by day and a poet by night, she currently works and writes between Chapel Hill, Miami, and Dubai, but remains a desert dweller at heart. She is the 2015 winner of the Paul Violi Prize in Poetry, and her work has appeared in H.O.W Journal, The Seventh Wave, Rivet, and Bird’s Thumb, among others. You can tweet her @itsmariamzafar.
Participation at the 2017 West End Poetry Festival
- Reading | Friday, October 20 | 6:30 to 8:30 pm | Flyleaf Books
- For a full schedule and descriptions of all sessions, see the festival schedule.