2025 UW Poetry MFA Graduates Reading

Patrycja Humienik is the author of We Contain Landscapes, forthcoming with Tin House this March 2025. An editor and teaching artist, Patrycja has developed writing and movement workshops for the Henry Art Gallery, Arts+Literature Laboratory, The Seventh Wave, Northwest Film Forum, and in prisons. Her work can be found in Gulf Coast, TriQuarterly, Poetry Daily, Poetry Society of America, the Slowdown show, and elsewhere. 

Maryhilda Obasiota Ibe is a Nigerian poet. She is the winner of the American Literary Review Poetry Prize, Bloomsday Poetry Prize and a 2025 Best of the Net Nominee. Her works have appeared or are forthcoming on American Literary Review, Chestnut Review, Blue Marble Review, Brittle Paper and elsewhere. She's currently an MFA candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Iqra Khan is a Pushcart and Best of the Net nominated poet and lawyer. She is a winner of the 2024 Disquiet Prize in poetry and the Frontier Global Poetry Prize 2022. Her poems can be found in Black Warrior Review, Indiana Review, Denver Quarterly, Puerto del Sol, Southeast Review, Adroit Journal, among others. Her work aspires to exact the maternal and the sacred upon the page and the world, and contends with her community's burden of becoming.
 

juj e. lepe is a first generation Mexican-American writer from Stockton, California. They hold a BA in Creative Writing from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Their works have appeared in beestung, Pile Press, The Acentos Review, Poetry Northwest, Harbor Review, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. You can find them beside the nearest body of water. 

Jonny Teklit is an award-winning poet who has had work appear in The Academy of American Poets, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Adroit Journal, and elsewhere. He is currently a second-year MFA candidate at the University of Wisconsin–Madison where he is working on his debut poetry collection. He has an animal fact for any occasion.

Andrew Chi Keong Yim was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. He was awarded the 2024 New Voices Award in Poetry from the Washington Square Review, selected by Terrance Hayes. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Best New Poets, 32 Poems, Washington Square Review, Bat City Review, and AAWW's The Margins. He has been a public school teacher in Boston and New York City, and has taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and with the Wisconsin Prison Humanities Project.