Mitchell L. H. Douglas is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis. His poems have appeared in Callaloo, Crab Orchard Review, Ninth Letter and the anthologies The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South and Zoland Poetry No. 2 among others. A Cave Canem fellow and cofounder of the Affrilachian Poets, his debut collection, Cooling Board: A Long-Playing Poem (Red Hen Press, 2009) was nominated for a 2010 NAACP Image Award in the Outstanding Literary Work-Poetry category and a 2010 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. His second poetry collection \blak\ \al-fə bet\, winner of the 2011 Lexi Rudnitsky/Editor’s Choice Award, will be available from Persea Books on Feb. 6, 2013.

\blak\ \al-fə bet\ (Persea Books/Karen & Michael Braziller, 2013), Cooling Board: A Long-Playing Poem (Red Hen Press, 2009)

Zoland Poetry No. 2 (Zoland Books, 2008), America! What's My Name? (Wind Publishing, 2007), The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South (University of Georgia Press, 2007), Poetic Voices Without Borders (Gival Press, 2005)

Callaloo, Crab Orchard Review, Louisville Review, Ninth Letter, Reverie: Midwest African American Literature, Sou'wester, Tidal Basin Review