Tarfia Faizullah is the author of two poetry collections, Registers of Illuminated Villages and Seam. Tarfia's writing features widely in the US and abroad in the Daily Star, Hindu Business Line, BuzzFeed, PBS News Hour, Huffington Post, Poetry Magazine, Ms. Magazine, the Academy of American Poets, Oxford American, the New Republic, the Nation, Halal If You Hear Me, and has been displayed at the Smithsonian, the Rubin Museum of Art, and elsewhere.

Recipient of a Fulbright fellowship, three Pushcart prizes, and other honors, Faizullah's work has been featured at the the Liberation War Museum of Bangladesh, the Library of Congress, the Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice, the Radcliffe Seminars, NYU, Barnard, UC Berkeley, the Poetry Foundation, the Clinton School of Public Service, Brac University, and elsewhere.

Tarfia's writing is translated into Bengali, Persian, Chinese, and Tamil. Born in Brooklyn, New York, to Bangladeshi immigrants and raised in Texas, Tarfia currently lives in Dallas.