Born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Kwame Opoku-Duku is a Ghanaian-American poet and fiction writer. He is the author of The Unbnd Verses (Glass Poetry Press), and his work is featured in The Atlantic, Poetry, The Nation, The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Kenyon Review Online, BOMB, The Literary Review, The Slowdown Podcast, and other publications. Kwame lives in New York City where he is an educator.