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Chaun Ballard

Chaun Ballard’s chapbook, Flight, was the recipient of the 2018 Sunken Garden Poetry Prize and is published by Tupelo Press, and his full-length collection, Second Nature, received the 2023 A. Poulin, Jr. Prize and was published by BOA Editions, Ltd. in 2025. His writings have appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, Narrative Magazine, The Journal of the Academy of American Poets, and elsewhere. He is currently at work on a collection of (creative nonfiction, scholarly, and craft) essays and a poetry chapbook that engages with Afrofuturist Thought. He holds an MFA and a PhD.