brittny ray crowell
brittny ray crowell is a native of Texarkana, Tex. She is the recipient of an Inprint Donald Barthelme Prize in Poetry and the Lucy Terry Prince Prize, judged by Major Jackson. Her poems have been published or are forthcoming in Frontier, The Common, The West Review, Mount Island, Aunt Chloe, Copper Nickel, The Journal, and the anthology Black Lives Have Always Mattered: A Collection of Essays, Poems, and Personal Narratives (University of Chicago Press, 2017). She is a teaching assistant and PhD candidate in creative writing and literature at the University of Houston.