Prince Bush

Poet

Iowa City, IA
Iowa US
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Author's Bio

Prince Bush is a poet from Nashville, TN whose poems appear in Cherry Tree, The Drift, The Cortland Review, Northwest Review, and elsewhere. He received a fellowship from the Bucknell Seminar for Undergraduate Poets while earning his BA in English as an Erastus Milo Cravath Presidential Scholar at Fisk University. Currently a PhD student in Creative Writing at the University of Cincinnati as a Yates Fellow, Prince Bush earned his MFA in English (Creative Writing) as a Truman Capote Literary Fellow from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop.

Publications & Prizes

Prizes won: 

Finalist for Sundress Publications’ Chapbook Context (2020); Longlist for Foundlings Press’ Ralph Angel Poetry Prize (2021); Nominated for The Pushcart Prize by Cherry Tree (2023), cream city review (2020), Barren Magazine (2019); Nominated for Best of the Net by The Cincinnati Review (2020), Puerto del Sol (2020), Screen Door Review (2020); Quarterfinalist for Frontier Poetry’s OPEN Prize (2018)

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Born in: 
Nashville, TN
Tennessee
Raised in: 
Nashville, TN
Tennessee
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Last update: May 08, 2024