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About Cortney Lamar Charleston

Cortney Lamar Charleston is a Cave Canem fellow from the Chicago suburbs. His debut collection Telepathologies won the 2016 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize selected by D.A. Powell. He began writing and performing poetry as a member of The Excelano Project when he was an undergraduate studying economics and urban studies at the University of Pennsylvania. His poetry is a marriage between art and activism and a call for a more involved and empathetic understanding of the diversity of the human experience. In 2017 Charleston was a recipient of the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. He currently serves as poetry editor at The Rumpus.