Naima Coster

Naima Coster is the author of Halsey Street, and a finalist for the 2018 Kirkus Prize for Fiction. Naima's stories and essays have appeared in the New York Times, Kweli, The Paris Review Daily, Aster(ix), Catapult, The Cut, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University, as well as degrees from Fordham University and Yale. She has taught writing in community settings, youth programs, and universities. Her second novel, What's Mine and Yours, will be published in March of 2021 by Grand Central Publishing.