The first Unbound author of 2022 is... Leila Chatti!

As you all know, we love our poets at Unbound, and this year’s guests are especially wonderful. Exhibit A: the very wonderful Leila Chatti. We can’t wait to welcome Leila to Columbia in April!

Leila Chatti is a Tunisian-American poet and author of Deluge (Copper Canyon Press, 2020), winner of the Levis Reading Prize and longlisted for the 2021 PEN Open Book Award, and the chapbooks Ebb (Akashic Books, 2018) and Tunsiya/Amrikiya (Bull City Press, 2018). Her honors include a Pushcart Prize, grants from the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund and the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, and Cleveland State University. She currently teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she is the Mendota Lecturer in Poetry. Her poems appear in The New York Times Magazine, The Nation, The Atlantic, POETRY, and elsewhere.