Ronaldo V. Wilson
About
Ronaldo V. Wilson is the author of Narrative of the Life of the Brown Boy and the White Man
, winner of the 2007 Cave Canem Poetry Prize (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008) and Poems of the Black Object (Futurepoem Books, 2009). He is a graduate of NYU's Graduate Creative Writing Program, and received a Ph.D. in English from the CUNY Graduate Center. Wilson held a National Research Council Ford Foundation fellowship, a winter residency with the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, and summer residencies with Djerassi, and Yaddo. He teaches creative writing and African American poetics at Mount Holyoke College.