Please join us for a reading and reception celebrating the release of Leila Chatti’s first full-length collection of poetry, DELUGE.

In her early twenties, Leila Chatti started bleeding and did not stop. Physicians referred to this bleeding as “flooding.” DELUGE mines Chatti’s journey from diagnosis to surgery and remission in meticulous chronology that binds body to spirit and advocates for the salvation of both.

Leila Chatti is the inaugural Annisfield-Wolf Fellow in Editing & Writing, and is the author of the chapbooks Eb and Tunsiya/Amrikiya. In 2017, she was shortlisted for the Brunel International African Poetry Prize.