Hafizah Augustus Geter is a Nigerian/U.S. writer born in Zaria, Nigeria, and raised in Ohio and South Carolina. She is a 2026 Hawthornden Fellow in fiction, a 2024 Civitella Ranieri nonfiction fellow, a Bread Loaf 2021 Katherine Bakeless nonfiction fellow, and a Cave Canem poetry fellow. Her memoir, The Black Period: On Personhood, Race & Origin (Random House), won the 2023 PEN Open Book Award and a 2023 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ+ Nonfiction, and was named a New Yorker Best Book, a Good Morning America Anticipated Book, an Amazon Best of the Month Editor’s Pick, and a finalist for the Chautauqua Prize. She is the author of the poetry collection Un-American (Wesleyan), nominated for an NAACP Image Award, a finalist for the PEN Open Book Award, and longlisted for a Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize. She is a literary agent at Janklow & Nesbit, where she represents a diverse range of fiction and nonfiction. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.
