Amaud Jamaul Johnson’s most recent book, Darktown Follies (Tupelo Press), received the 2014 Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Legacy Award in Poetry. Parneshia Jones is the author of the debut collection Vessel (Milkweed Editions). Ladan Osman’s first book, The Kitchen Dweller’s Testimony (University of Nebraska Press), won the 2014 Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets.
