Len Lawson

Len Lawson is the author of Chime (Get Fresh Books, 2019) and the chapbook Before the Night Wakes You (Finishing Line Press, 2017). He is also editor of Hand in Hand: Poets Respond to Race (Muddy Ford Press, 2017) and The Future of Black: Afrofuturism and Black Comics Poetry (Blair Press, 2021). Among his accolades, he won the 2016 Jasper Project Artist of the Year Award in Literary Arts, the inaugural 2018 NC Poetry Society Susan Laughter Meyers Fellowship in Poetry, and the 2020 SC Academy of Authors Carrie McCrary Nickens Fellowship in Poetry. He has received other fellowships from Tin House, Palm Beach Poetry Festival, Callaloo, Vermont Studio Center, and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts among others. Currently, he serves on the Boards of Directors for The Jasper Project. Len earned a PhD in English Literature and Criticism from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and currently is Assistant Professor of English at Newberry College.

Speakers Bureau Topics by Len Lawson

Contributions of Contemporary African American South Carolina Native Poets

African-American History and Culture Poetry South Carolina History and Culture

The Power of Black Female Flight in the Neo-Slave Narrative

African-American History and Culture Literature and Writing Women's Studies

Water as Vehicle and Healing in Julie Dash’s Daughters of the Dust

Gullah Geechee History and Culture Lowcountry History and Culture The Arts

Len Lawson

Speakers Bureau Topics by Len Lawson

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