Naima Coster

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Naima Coster

Naima Coster is a Dominican-American writer known for her debut novel, Halsey Street, which was published in January 2018. Coster is the recipient of numerous awards including a Pushcart Prize nomination.[1]

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Coster at the 2018 Texas Book Festival
BornNew York City, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
EducationYale University (BA)
Fordham University (MA)
Columbia University (MFA)
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Life and career

Naima Coster was born in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, NY. She identifies as Black and Latina.[2][3]

Coster holds an MFA in Fiction from Columbia University, an MA in English and Creative Writing from Fordham University, and a BA in English and African American studies from Yale University, where she was a member of Skull and Bones.[4] She is an alumna of Prep for Prep, a leadership development program in New York City. She has taught writing to students in jail, youth programs, and universities.

She is the author of two novels, Halsey Street, and What's Mine and Yours. Her novels address topics such as gentrification, integration, and racial and cultural identity.[5][6]

Her writing has appeared in publications including The New York Times, The Rumpus, Arts & Letters, Kweli, and Guernica. She also writes the newsletter, Bloom How You Must.[7] As of 2018, she was a visiting assistant professor at Wake Forest University[8] in North Carolina, where she lives with her family.[9]

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  • Halsey Street. Amazon Publishing, 2017. ISBN 9781503941175. OCLC 1026852371[11][12][13][14][15]
  • What's Mine and Yours. Grand Central Publishing, 2021. ISBN 978-1538702345.

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