Writers in Conversation invites two writers at different stages of their writing careers, to share their work and engage in conversation with each other and entire audience. There is no charge for this event and donations are welcome. The result is a lively discussion of all things literary. The evening is sure to both please and educate, not to mention inspire! This month, our guests are poets/authors Maria Nazos and Saddiq Dzukogi.
Maria Nazos is a Greek American poet raised in Athens, Greece. Her poetry, translations, and essays appear in Poets & Writers, The New Yorker, and elsewhere. She is the author of PULSE (Omnidawn, 2026) and The Slow Horizon that Breathes (World Poetry Books, 2023), a translation of the poems of Greek poet Dimitra Kotoula.
Saddiq Dzukogi is a Nigerian poet and assistant professor of English at University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is the author of Your Crib, My Qibla (Nebraska, 2021), shortlisted for the Nigeria Prize for Literature. His poems have appeared in Poetry Magazine, Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, Narrative Magazine, Ploughshares, Guernica Magazine, Poetry London, Best American Experimental Writing Anthology, and Cincinnati Review. His latest book is the epic poem “Bakandamiya: An Elegy.”