Cortney Lamar Charleston is the author of Telepathologies, selected by D. A. Powell for the 2016 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize, and of Doppelgangbanger,
forthcoming in 2020 from Haymarket Books. A recipient of fellowships from Cave Canem, The Conversation Literary Festival, and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, he was awarded a 2017 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship by the Poetry Foundation. His poems have appeared in Poetry, New England Review, Gulf Coast, AGNI, River Styx, and elsewhere. Winner of a Pushcart Prize, he serves as a poetry editor of
The Rumpus and on the editorial board of Alice James Books. (updated 9/2019)