Prince Bush

Poet

Iowa City, IA
Iowa US
Email: 
prince-bush@uiowa.edu
Website: 
prince-bush.com
Twitter/X: 
@princebush_

Author's Bio

Prince Bush is a poet from Nashville, Tennessee with poems in Cherry Tree, Northwest Review, Pleiades, and elsewhere. He earned his BA in English as an Erastus Milo Cravath Presidential Scholar at Fisk University and was a Bucknell Seminar for Undergraduate Poets Fellow. He is currently a Truman Capote fellow at the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop for poetry.

Education: 
University of Cincinnati PhD
University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop MFA

Publications & Prizes

Prizes won: 

Finalist for Sundress Publications’ Chapbook Context (2020); Longlist for Foundlings Press’ Ralph Angel Poetry Prize (2021); Nominated for The Pushcart Prize by Cherry Tree (2023), cream city review (2020), Barren Magazine (2019); Nominated for Best of the Net by The Cincinnati Review (2020), Puerto del Sol (2020), Screen Door Review (2020); Quarterfinalist for Frontier Poetry’s OPEN Prize (2018)

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Born in: 
Nashville, TN
Tennessee
Raised in: 
Nashville, TN
Tennessee
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Last update: Mar 31, 2024