Salt Pruning: A Poetry Collaboration (Book Launch and Q & A)

The reading will feature the following writers, and culminate in a reading and Q & A by the authors of Salt Pruning, Ignatius Valentine Aloysius, and David Allen Sullivan:

Nina Sudhakar, a writer, poet, and lawyer based in Chicago. She is the author of Where to Carry the Sound (winner of the 2024 Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction) and two poetry chapbooks. Her work has appeared in Salamander, The Rumpus, Witness, and elsewhere. She serves as Dispatches and Book Reviews Editor at The Common and on the board of the Chicago Poetry Center.

Faisal Mohyuddin, the author of Elsewhere: An Elegy (Next Page Press, 2024), The Displaced Children of Displaced Children, (Eyewear, 2018), which won the Sexton Prize in Poetry, and the chapbooks The Riddle of Longing (Backbone Press, 2017) and An End to Captivity (Next Page, 2024). His recent poems have appeared in The Banyan Review, Poetry, RHINO, Poet Lore, Kweli, and What Things Cost: An Anthology for the People (University Press of Kentucky, 2023). He teaches English at Highland Park High School in suburban Chicago and creative writing at the School of Professional Studies at Northwestern University.

Host or Publisher South Asia Institute