Overview
I have editorially ushered ten books into the world under my own imprint and helped over 40 more under the African Poetry Book Fund. Privately, and in my academic teaching, I have mentored at least 20 more titles into publication. That is over 70 titles; no mean feat.
Services
Fiction
Non-Fiction
Languages
Awards
- PEN Hemingway Prize
- Guggenheim
- PEN Freedom to Write Award
- PEN Beyond the Margins Award
- Lannan Literary Fellowship
- Hurston Wright Legacy Award
- Edgar Prize
- Member American Academy of Arts & Sciences
Certifications
- PhD Creative Writing and Literature
- MA Gender and Politics
- MA English
Work experience
Pacific University MFA Program
I teach graduate students to develop their writing and provide semester long mentoring and editorial work for 5 students .
Northwestern University
I teach creative writing and literature classes. I edit student work, full length manuscripts etc.
Self-employed
I work with other editors, and Kwame Dawes, to edit and put out full length poetry books under our imprint. I also co-edit and publish (with Kwame Dawes) a box-set of ten chapbooks of poetry each year.
Portfolio
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Blayne D.
Aug, 2018
Joel T.
Jun, 2018