Derrick Austin

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Derrick Austin is the author of Trouble the Water (BOA Editions 2016). A Cave Canem fellow, Pushcart Prize and four-time Best New Poets nominee, he earned his MFA at the University of Michigan. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Best American Poetry 2015, New England Review, Image: A Journal of Arts and Religion, Callaloo, Crab Orchard Review, Memorious, Assaracus, Unsplendid, Tampa Review Online, Knockout, and other journals and anthologies. He is the Social Media Coordinator for The Offing.

Prize anthology mentions

Best American Poetry 2015

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