Dexter L. Booth

Dexter L. Booth holds degrees in Fine Art and Creative Writing from Arizona State University and Virginia Commonwealth University. His poems have appeared in Blackbird, Virginia Quarterly Review, Grist, Willow Springs, New Delta Review, and Ostrich Review. Scratching the Ghost, his first book of poems, was selected by Major Jackson as the 2012 winner of the Cave Canem Award. Booth currently lives in Arizona, teaching at Arizona State University.

Prize anthology mentions

Best American Poetry 2015

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