Mira Mattar, Creative Conversations

Monday 10 Febaruary, 2025 1 – 2 p.m.
University of Glasgow, Memorial Chapel, University Avenue, Glasgow G12 8QQ
Mira Mattar writes fiction, poetry and essays. Her novella, Yes, I Am A Destroyer, was published in 2020. Her chapbook, Affiliation, and her first collection, The Bow were both published in 2021. A new chapbook, And most of all I would miss the shadows of the tree’s own leaves cast upon its trunk by the orange streetlight in the sweet blue darks of spring, has recently been published by Veer2. Her work has been published in Granta, Vittles, The Chicago Review, Berfrois, Salvage and elsewhere. She is currently the Guest Editor of Decolonial Hacker and a contributing editor at Mute. Mira lives and works in London.
Creative Conversations is generously supported by the Ferguson Bequest.
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