MFA student Ajla Dizdarević announces upcoming book publication
Third-year MFA student Ajla Dizdarevic‘s collection of poems, What I Learned About Dogs in the Village, will be published by Carnegie Mellon University Press. Her collection was one of four chosen from 500+ submissions for inclusion in CMUP’s poetry series. What I Learned About Dogs in the Village will be released in February 2027.
Ajla Dizdarević has worked as an editor, educator, and Fulbright recipient in the US, Serbia, Croatia, and France. She was a finalist for the 2023 PEN Emerging Voices Fellowship and received an honorable mention for a 2024 Academy of American Poets Prize. Her work has been published in We the Interwoven, an anthology taught in high schools across Iowa, Plainsongs Poetry Journal, and on by the Iowa Review as part of a David Hamilton Prize. Additionally, she received a grant from the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs to support her writing. She holds a BA from the University of Iowa.
