Sidik Fofana is a public school teacher and graduate of NYU’s MFA Creative Writing program. He is a recipient of a Whiting Award, New York City Book Award, a Gotham Book Prize for his collection Stories from the Tenants Downstairs. His fiction has been published in the Sewanee Review, Granta, and Harper’s. 

The Poets & Writers Series is sponsored by the Temple University MFA Program in Creative Writing, with the assistance of the Department of English. Each year a number of poets and fiction writers are invited to read from and discuss their work to members of both the Temple community and the local Philadelphia arts scene. All events are free and open to the public.