Kamilah Aisha Moon

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A recipient of fellowships to the Cave Canem Foundation, the Prague Summer Writing Institute, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA, and the Vermont Studio Center, Moon's work has been featured in several journals and anthologies, including Harvard Review, jubilat, Poem-A-Day for the Academy of American Poets, Oxford American, Lumina, Callaloo, Essence, Gathering Ground. A Pushcart Prize winner, she was also a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and the Audre Lorde Award from the Publishing Triangle. She has taught English and Creative Writing for several colleges and organizations. Moon holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Sarah Lawrence College.

Prize anthology mentions

Pushcart (Poetry) 2015

Best American Poetry 2019

Best American Poetry 2021

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