Jamaal May is a poet from Detroit, MI where he taught poetry in public schools and worked as a freelance audio engineer and touring performer. His poetry won the 2013 Indiana Review Prize and appears in journals such as Poetry, Ploughshares, and the Believer. Jamaal has earned an MFA from Warren Wilson and fellowships from Cave Canem and Bucknell University. His first book is Hum (Alice James Books 2013), and he is founder of the Organic Weapon Arts Chapbook Press. His poems can be found in the Summer 2013 issue of The Kenyon Review.
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