JHPF Feature Poet
John Murillo
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John Murillo is a two-time Larry Neal Writers' Award winner and the 2008-2009 Elma P. Stuckey Visiting Emerging Poet-in-Residence at Columbia College Chicago. A graduate of New York University's MFA program in creative writing, he has received fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, Cave Canem, and the New York Times. His poetry has appeared, or is forthcoming, in such publications as Court Green, Callaloo, Ploughshares, and Ninth Letter, as well as the anthologies, DC Poets Against the War and Writing Self and Community: African-American Poetry After the Civil Rights Movement. In 2008, his work was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He will be 2009-2010 Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. His first full-length collection, Up Jump the Boogie, is forthcoming in 2010 from Cypher Books. |