Ajanaé Dawkins

Ajanaé Dawkins is a poet, a performer, and an educator. She has published work in The Rumpus, EcoTheo Review, The BreakBeat Poets: Black Girl Magic, and The Offing, among others. Her honors include a Tinderbox Poetry Editors Prize and a finalist placement for a Toi Derricotte & Cornelius Eady Chapbook Prize from Cave Canem. Dawkins is the 2022 Duncanson artist-in-residence at the Taft Museum and a recipient of a fellowship from The Watering Hole and the Pink Door Writing Retreat. She is the theology editor for EcoTheo Review, a Blackburn Fellow as an MFA candidate at Randolph College, and an MDiv candidate at Methodist Theological School in Ohio.