Mitchell L. H. Douglas

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First name:

Mitchell L. H.

Last name:

Douglas

Email address:

mitchelldouglas@hotmail.com [2]

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Email:

mildougl@iupui.edu [3]

Phone:

(317) 278-0421

Bio:

Mitchell L. H. Douglas is Associate Professor of English at Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis. 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, was published in February 2013 by Persea Books. His poems have appeared in Callaloo, Crab Orchard Review, Ninth Letter and the anthologies The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South and Resisting Arrest: Poems to Stretch the Sky among others. He is a Cave Canem graduate and cofounder of the Affrilachian Poets. His third collection of poems, dying in the scarecrow's arms, is forthcoming from Persea Books in spring 2018.

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

In which languages are you fluent?:

English

Born in:

Louisville

Raised in:

Iowa City, IA

Iowa

Website:

http://www.mitchelldouglaspoetry.com [4]

Prizes won:

2011 Persea Books Lexi Rudnitsky/Editor's Choice Award

What I'm reading now:

The Kitchen-Dwellers Testimony by Ladan Osman

American Purgatory by Rebecca Gayle Howell

The Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded by Molly McCully Brown

Into Each Room We Enter without Knowing by Charif Shanahan

Public address:

425 University Boulevard Cavanaugh Hall, Rm 503V

Indianapolis, IN 46202

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United States

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Mitchell L. H. Douglas [5]

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African American [6]

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Any [7]