Len Lawson is the author of Negro Asylum for the Lunatic Insane (Main Street Rag, 2023) and Chime (Get Fresh Books, 2019). He is also editor of The Future of Black: Afrofuturism, Black Comics, and Superhero Poetry (Blair Press, 2021). He has received fellowships from Tin House Summer Workshop, Palm Beach Poetry Festival, Callaloo Barbados, Vermont Studio Center, and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, among others. His poetry appears in African American Review, Callaloo, Mississippi Review, Ninth Letter, and Verse Daily. Len earned a PhD in English Literature and Criticism at Indiana University of Pennsylvania and an MFA in Creative Writing at Queens University of Charlotte. Born and living in South Carolina, he is currently Director of African American Studies and Assistant Professor of English at Newberry College.