Discipline: Fiction/Nonfiction Writing
Based In: Queens, NY
Year at Millay: 2011
Awards/Honors: Grant Recipient, New Works Grant, Queens Council on the Arts, Queens, NY (2020, 2018); Storyteller, Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute, St. Andrews, Scotland (2019); Fellow, Nonfiction, NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY (2014); Finalist, Aesthetica Creative Writing Award, Aesthetica Magazine, York, United Kingdom (2012); Grant Recipient, Creative Writing Fellowship Grant, National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, DC (2012); Prize Winner, DWL Short Story Contest, Desi Writers Lounge (2012); Fellow, Writing, The Edward F. Albee Foundation, Montauk, NY (2011); Prize Winner, Life Writing, Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize, "Wasafiri," Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom (2011); Artist-in-Residence, Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, Ithaca, NY (2009); Fulbright Scholar to Bangladesh, Literature, Fulbright US Scholar Program (2006–2007).
Website: https://www.olivewitch.com/about/
Photo by Josh Steinbauer
Abeer Hoque is a Nigerian-born Bangladeshi American writer, photographer, and educator. Her books include a coffee table book (The Long Way Home), a linked collection of stories, poems, and photographs (The Lovers and the Leavers), and a memoir (Olive Witch).