Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers is a poet whose work examines culture, religion, history, and family. She is the author of five books of poetry. Her most recent book The Age of Phillis was long-listed for the 2020 National Book Award for poetry. Her previous poetry collections include The Glory Gets, Red Clay Suite, Outlandish Blues and The Gospel of Barbecue. An elected member of the American Antiquarian Society, she teaches creative writing at the University of Oklahoma where she is a professor of English.