Len Lawson

Poet

Florence, SC
South Carolina US
Website: 
www.lenlawson.co
Twitter/X: 
@lenvillelaws

Author's Bio

Len Lawson is the author of Chime (Get Fresh, 2019), the chapbook Before the Night Wakes You (Finishing Line, 2017). He is co-editor of Hand in Hand: Poets Respond to Race (Muddy Ford, 2017) & The Future of Black: Afrofuturism and Black Comics Poetry (Blair, 2021). His poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net.  He has received fellowships from Callaloo, Vermont Studio Center, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and others. His poetry appears in Callaloo, African American Review, Ninth Letter, Verse Daily, Mississippi Review, and elsewhere. Len is also a Ph.D. candidate in English Literature and Criticism at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, earning the 2020 IUP Outstanding Doctoral Student Award. He has taught English in South Carolina higher education for ten years. 

Writers Retreats: 
Vermont Studio Center
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

Publications & Prizes

Journals:
African American Review
,
Baltimore Review
,
berfrois
,
Border Crossing
,
Callaloo
,
Connotation Press: An Online Artifact
,
Control Literary Magazine
,
Cosmonauts Avenue
,
Diverse Voices Quarterly
,
Gigantic Sequins
,
Good Men Project
,
Jasper Magazine
,
Metaphors
,
Mississippi Review
,
Ninth Letter
,
NYSAI Press
,
Pank
,
PLUCK!
,
Queen Mob's Teahouse
,
Rolling Thunder Quarterly
,
South Florida Poetry Journal
,
Stonecoast Review
,
The Southern Tablet
,
THRUSH Poetry Journal
,
Time of Singing
,
Up the Staircase
,
Verse Daily
,
Winter Tangerine Review
,
Yellow Chair Review
Prizes won: 

Watering Hole Fellowship, Berfrois Poetry Prize Finalist, Mississippi Review Poetry Prize Finalist, Pushcart Prize Nominee, Best of the Net Nominee, Yellow Chair Review Chapbook Finalist, Gigantic Sequins Summer Contest Finalist, Carrie McCray Nickens Poetry Fellowship, Susan Laughter Myers Poetry Fellowship, Obsidian Foundation Fellowship, Palm Beach Poetry Festival Langston Hughes Fellowship

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
African American
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Orangeburg, SC
South Carolina
Raised in: 
Bamberg, SC
South Carolina
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Last update: Dec 22, 2020