Born and raised in Florence, South Carolina, Justin Phillip Reed is a Cave Canem fellow and the author of A History of Flamboyance (YesYes Books, 2016). His first full-length book of poetry, Indecency, is forthcoming from Coffee House Press in 2018. His work appears—or soon will—in African American Review, Best American Essays, Callaloo, The Iowa Review, The Kenyon Review, Obsidian, PEN Poetry Series, and elsewhere. A three-time high school expellee and an ex-college dropout, he received his BA in creative writing at Tusculum College and his MFA in poetry at Washington University in St. Louis.
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