Leila Chatti

Biography

Leila Chatti is a Tunisian-American writer and author of Deluge (2020), her debut full-length poetry collection that explores themes of illness, grief, misogyny, and religious beliefs. Her other publications are Tunsiya/Amrikiya (2018) and Ebb (2018), a chapbook part of the anthology of emerging African poets by the African Poetry Book Fund. She graduated from Michigan State University in 2011 and, in 2015, received her MFA from North Carolina State University, where she was awarded the Academy of American Poets Prize. Her poems, which blend personal narrative with the close examination of the enactment of faith and its complexities, have received numerous prizes, including the Pushcart Prize. She lives in Cincinnati, Ohio, where she is pursuing a PhD in creative writing at the University of Cincinnati as a Provost Fellow.

Birth Date

1990-01-01

Place of Birth

Tunisian

Country of Nationality

Tunisia, United States

Languages Spoken

English, Arabic (Tunisian dialect-Derja), French

Residential College in the Arts and Humanities at Michigan State University, North Carolina State University, University of Cincinnati

Poetry Collections

Deluge (Copper Canyon Press, Port Townsend, WA, 2020); Tunsiya/Amrikiya (Bull City Press, Durham, NC, 2018);
Ebb (Akashic Books, Brooklyn, NY, 2018)

Sources

"A Creative Flurry Sparked Perspective for Poet, Leila Chatti." MSU Alumni, Michigan State University, 15 June 2021, www.alumni.msu.edu/stay-informed/alumni-stories/the-poet-leila-chatti-11. Accessed 27 January 2022.
 
"Leila Chatti." www.leilachatti.com. Accessed 27 January 2022.
 
Lombardi, Anthony. "Issue Thirty-Three: A Conversation with Leila Chatti." The Adroit Journal, 21 May 2020, www.theadroitjournal.org/issue-thirty-three/leila-chatti-interview/. Accessed 27 January 2022.
 
Nesler, Tyler, and Isabelle Sakelaris. "Leila Chatti Interview." Interlocutor, 24 November 2021, www.interlocutorinterviews.com/new-blog/2020/10/5/interview-leila-chatti. Accessed 27 January 2022.