Faisal Mohyuddin teaches English at Highland Park High School in suburban Chicago, is a recent fellow in the U.S. Department of State's Teachers for Global Classrooms program, and received an MFA in fiction writing from Columbia College Chicago in 2015. He was awarded the 2014 Edward Stanley Award from Prairie Schooner and was selected as a finalist in Narrative's Eighth Annual Poetry Contest in 2016. His writing has appeared and is forthcoming in Poet Lore, Atlanta Review, RHINO, Chicago Quarterly Review, Crab Orchard Review, the minnesota review, Indivisible: An Anthology of Contemporary South Asian American Poetry (University of Arkansas), and elsewhere. He lives in Chicago with his wife and son.