Len Lawson is the author of Negro Asylum for the Lunatic Insane (Main Street Rag, 2023), Chime (Get Fresh, 2019), the chapbook Before the Night Wakes You (Finishing Line, 2017). He is co-editor of Hand in Hand: Poets Respond to Race (Muddy Ford, 2017) and The Future of Black: Afrofuturism and Black Comics Poetry (Blair, 2021). His poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net.  He has received fellowships from Callaloo, Vermont Studio Center, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and others. His poetry appears in Callaloo, African American Review, Ninth Letter, Verse Daily, Mississippi Review, and elsewhere. Len earned a PhD in English Literature and Criticism from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and an MFA in Creative Writing from Queens University of Charlotte. He is currently Director of African American Studies and Assistant Professor of English at Newberry College.