J.K. Lawson

JK Lawson is a visual artist and poet. Over the past 30 years his work has been exhibited extensively throughout the USA including the American Visionary Museum in Baltimore, the Californian African American Museum in Los Angelos, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, Time and Space Limited, Hudson, NY and currently at the New England Visionary Arts museum, in Northanpton, Ma.He is the author of seven books, including Zombie Love, his third collection of poems in the Some Guy Upstairs Trilogy. His novel, Hurricane Hotel, set at the Audubon Hotel in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, has been successfully adapted for the theater with several staged readings both in the USA and UK. JK helped establish a poets/songwriter residency at the Rame Center for the Arts in Cornwall, U.K. and along with the poet Jane Ormerod, hosts the Galerie of Poetic Autopsies. A monthly gathering of poets, songwriters, and other undisrables, held at the Park Theatre in Hudson, NY.He is the recipient of both the Mass Individual Grant and the Berkshire Taconic grant and currently lives in Sheffield,Ma with his wife and son and 16-year-old puppy ,Sunshine. For more information, please visit www.lawsonworks.com or follow him on social media.