Ajanae Dawkins

Ajanae Dawkins has been published in The Rumpus, EcoTheo Review, The BreakBeat Poets Black Girl Magic Anthology, The Offing, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Winter Tangerine, and The Blueshift Journal. Her work has also been featured on For Harriet, Def Jam, and Button Poetry. Ajanae is the winner of Tinderbox Poetry Journal’s Editors Prize, a finalist for the Cave Canem Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady Chapbook Prize, as well as for the Brett Elizabeth Jenkins poetry prize. She is a fellow of The Watering Hole’s writer’s retreat for African American writers and Pink Door writer’s retreat. She is the 2022 Duncanson Artist-In-Residence at the Taft Museum of Art. Ajanae is currently a Blackburn Fellow as an MFA candidate at Randolph College and an Alford Scholar as an MDiv candidate at Methodist Theological School of Ohio.