Name: Edil Hassan

Recipient Type: Scholarship Recipient

Recipient Year: 2020

School Name: Washington University of St. Louis

Major: Writing for Film & TV

Description: Edil Hassan received an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis, where she studied poetry under Carl Phillips and Mary Jo Bang as an Olin fellow . She has received support from Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference and a fellowship from the Stadler Center. Published in Poetry magazine and anthologized in Halal If You Hear Me, her work explores Black Muslim girlhood, theater and performance, and national memory. Her chapbook Duugsi Girl was recently selected by Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani for the New Generation African Poets chapbook series by the African Poetry Book Fund and Akashic Books.

Sponsor: Afzal Family Foundation