Joy Priest

Biography

Joy Priest is an American poet, editor, and academic from Louisville, Kentucky. She is the author of Horsepower, winner of the 2019 Donald Hall Prize for Poetry, selected by Natasha Trethewey, and the editor of Once a City Said: A Louisville Poets Anthology. She is an assistant professor in the MFA Writing Program at the University of Pittsburgh and Curator of Community Programs & Practice at the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics (CAAPP).

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