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Coty Poynter [1]

Listed as: 
Poet
Public address: 
Baltimore, MD
Maryland US
Email: 
cotympoynter@gmail.com
Bio: 

Coty Poynter is a writer from Baltimore, Maryland. His work has been published in Black Fox Literary Magazine, Equinox, Grub Street, and various other outlets. His second poetry collection, Delirium: Poems, was published in October 2018 by Bowen Press. He was the creative nonfiction editor at Mud Season Review, an international literary journal run by members of the Burlington Writers Workshop, a free writing workshop based in Vermont. He is a contributor for Write or Die Tribe, a digital space for writers who seek creative and literary connections, where he writes essays on craft and does the occasional interview. He is a current graduate student at Towson University in the Professional Writing program. He lives in Baltimore with his partner Carly, their cat Pudge, their dog Tycho, and a hodgepodge of plants.

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
In which languages are you fluent?: 
English
Favorite authors: 
Denis Johnson, Lauren Groff, Raymond Carver, Charles D'Ambrosio, Kurt Vonnegut, Kimberly King Parsons, George Saunders, Lydia Davis, Lucia Berlin, Leslie Jamison, Hanif Abdurraqib, Elisa Gabbert, Claudia Rankine, Melissa Febos, Carmen Maria Machado
Twitter/X: 
@CotyMPoynt
Born in: 
Baltimore, MD
Maryland
Raised in: 
Baltimore, MD
Maryland
Website: 
https://www.cotypoynter.com/ [2]
Prizes won: 

He was a recipient of the spring 2022 Good Contrivance Farm Fellowship, the 2022-2023 State of Maryland Delegate Scholarship, and the 2022 NY State Summer Writers Institute Scholarship.

Writers Retreats: 
The Writer’s Retreat at Good Contrivance Farm
Identifies as: 
American

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[1] https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/coty_poynter [2] https://www.cotypoynter.com/