The Reading List with Fartumo Kusow

Fartumo Kusow is a high school English teacher, novelist, podcaster, activist, and mother of five who lives in Windsor, Ontario. Born in Somalia, Fartumo immigrated to Canada in 1991, at the start of the civil war, with fluency in Somali and Arabic but not English, and went on to earn two degrees. Fartumo Kusow first appeared on this podcast in 2020, chatting about her second novel which was her debut novel in English, Tale of a Boon’s Wife. She’s here with us today to discuss her new novel, Winter of My Spring, published by Spark Press in March 2026. https://fartumokusow.com/https://gosparkpress.com/portfolio/fartumo-kusow/