Hafizah Geter was born in Zaria, Nigeria. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in The New Yorker, McSweeney’s Indelibile in the Hippcampus, Tin House, Narrative Magazine, Gulf Coast, Boston Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, Roxane Gay's GAY Magazine, and Longreads, among others. She is an editor for Little A and TOPPLE Books, and serves on the poetry committee for the Brooklyn Book Festival. You can find her on Twitter @RhetoricAndThis.