SSW Community Faculty Hilal Isler has been awarded a 2022 PERIPLUS fellowship, a program for writers that are Black, Indigenous and people of color. This year, the PERIPLUS collective awarded the fellowship to 59 writers (from a pool of more than 500 applicants), who met with mentors every month to receive feedback on their work and the publishing industry. 

Hilal Isler has been with SSW’s Social Justice Minor Program since 2013. She teaches Introduction to Peace Studies and Introduction to Social Justice. She is also a writer, with work in the Paris Review, the LA Review of Books, the Brooklyn Review online, and elsewhere. She currently serves as Editor of the literary arts journal, the Hennepin Review. Her doctorate is from the University of Pennsylvania. Read more at her website.