Randall Horton

Randall Horton, originally from Birmingham, Alabama is the recipient of the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Award, the Bea Gonzalez Poetry Award, a National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship in Literature, the GLCA New Writers Award for Creative Nonfiction for Hook: A Memoir (2015), Poet-in-Residence at the Civil Right Corpse, and, most recently, a Right to Return Fellowship from the Soze Foundation. Randall is also a member of the band Heroes Are Gang Leaders, a group whose unique blend of blues, jazz, funk, hip hop, go-go, R&B, soul, classical music, poetry, dramaturgy and prose, continues the legacy of Amiri Baraka and received the American Book Award for Oral Literature. The University of Kentucky Press is the publisher of his latest poetry collection {#289-128}.