About Thomas Kneeland

Thomas Kneeland is a poet, educator, community leader, and visual artist. He is author of the chapbook, We Be Walkin’ Blackly in the Deep (Marian University), and one of ten 2022 Frontier Poetry Global Poetry Prize finalists for the continent of Africa. He is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of The Elevation Review. His poetry is published or forthcoming in Kitchen Table Quarterly, Up the Staircase Quarterly, South Florida Poetry Journal, INverse Poetry Archives, Rigorous Magazine, and elsewhere. Kneeland holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Butler University and was recently awarded a Speculative Play and Just Futurities Residency from the Indianapolis Arts and Humanities Institute at Indiana University-Indianapolis.

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