Kwame Dawes is the author of numerous books of poetry, fiction, criticism, and essays. His most recent collection, unHistory (Peepal Tree Press, 2022), was cowritten with John Kinsella. Dawes is the George Holmes Professor of English at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and the Glenna Luschei Editor of Prairie Schooner. He teaches in Pacific University’s MFA program and is series editor of the African Poetry Book Series, director of the African Poetry Book Fund, and artistic director of the Calabash International Literary Festival. He is an Academy of American Poets Chancellor and a Royal Society of Literature Fellow.