Destiny O. Birdsong is a poet, fiction writer, and essayist whose work has either appeared or is forthcoming in
African American Review, The Adroit Journal, Best New Poets 2018, The Cambridge Companion to Transnational American Literature, storySouth, Guernica, and elsewhere. Destiny has won the Academy of American Poets Prize,
Naugatuck River Review’s 2016 Poetry Contest,
Meridian’s 2017 “Borders†Contest in Poetry, and
Crab Orchard Review’s 2019 Richard Peterson Poetry Prize. She has received support from Cave Canem, Callaloo, Jack Jones Literary Arts, The MacDowell Colony, Pink Door, The Ragdale Foundation, and the Tin House Summer Workshop. Her debut poetry collection, Negotiations, is forthcoming from Tin House Books in Fall 2020. She earned both her MFA and PhD from Vanderbilt University. Learn more at
destinybirdsong.com.
