Presented By: University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program
WEBSTER • Clarisse Baleja Saidi & Courtney Faye Taylor
Second-Year MFA Readings
CLARISSE BALEJA SAIDI is from Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. She was born and raised in Côte d’Ivoire and writes of home(s) and faithfulness, of the personal and the political.
COURTNEY FAYE TAYLOR was a finalist in the 2015 Agnes Scott College Writers’ Festival Contest and the recipient of an Academy of American Poets Prize. Her work appears in Witness. She lives in North Carolina.
            COURTNEY FAYE TAYLOR was a finalist in the 2015 Agnes Scott College Writers’ Festival Contest and the recipient of an Academy of American Poets Prize. Her work appears in Witness. She lives in North Carolina.