Cortney Lamar Charleston

Cortney Lamar Charleston is a poet and Cave Canem fellow from the Chicago suburbs. He holds degrees in economics and urban studies from the University of Pennsylvania, where he began performing with The Excelano Project. His debut collection, Telepathologies, won the 2016 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize. A recipient of the 2017 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship, he currently serves as the poetry editor at The Rumpus.