Kwame Dawes

Kwame Dawes is a Ghanaian poet, critic, and academic who serves as the Professor of Literary Arts at Brown University and the Poet Laureate of Jamaica. He is the director of the African Poetry Book Fund and previously served as editor-in-chief of Prairie Schooner. With a career spanning thirty poetry collections, fiction, and essays, he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a recipient of the Windham-Campbell Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry.