Celeste Doaks

Poet and journalist Celeste Doaks is the author of Cornrows and Cornfields(Wrecking Ball Press, UK, 2015). She is also the editor of (and contributor in) thepoetry anthology Not Without Our Laughter: Poems of Humor, Joy, and Sexuality(Mason Jar Press, 2017). Her chapbook, American Herstory (Backbone Press,2019), contains poems about Michelle Obama and the art she chose for theWhite House walls. American Herstory was Backbone Press’s first runner-upprize winner. Her journalism has appeared in Huffington Post, Village Voice,Time Out New York, and QBR (Quarterly Black Book Review). She is a PushcartPrize nominee; her poems have been published in on-line and print publicationssuch as The Rumpus, Chicago Quarterly Review, Asheville Poetry Review,Baltimore Magazine, Bayou Magazine and others. In the fall of 2017, shereceived a Rubys Literary Arts Grant for her, Grey Matter, her poetry manuscript-in-progress. Doaks received her M.F.A. from North Carolina State University andis the 2017-2020 Visiting Assistant Professor in Creative Writing at University ofDelaware.