"He Made Me See That The World Is Complicated"

An adjunct English instructor at Savannah State University is the winner of a prestigious national prize for emerging poets. Sjohnna McCray has won the $5,000 Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets for his manuscript, “Rapture.” As part of the award, it will be published as a book next year by Graywolf Press. McCray says he set out to write a story about his father’s life.