Biography
Amaud Jamaul Johnson is a native son of Compton, California. He received his BA in English from Howard University and a MPS in African American Studies from Cornell University. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford, Amaud is a member of the Cave Canem Workshop. His poems have appeared in
New England Review,
Rivendell,
Poetry Daily,
From the Fishouse, and
The Cave Canem Anthology. He is an assistant professor of English at the University of Wisconsin—Madison. His first reader and toughest critic is his wife, Cherene Sherrard.
Awards
- Winner of the 2004 Dorset Prize, selected by Carl Phillips
Links
Reviews of Amaud Jamaul Johnson's Red Summer
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