Ama Codjoe is the author of Bluest Nude, winner of the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize and Blood of the Air, winner of the Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize. Among other honors, Codjoe has received fellowships from the Rona Jaffe Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bronx Council on the Arts, the New York State Council/New York Foundation of the Arts, and the Jerome Foundation. She is the winner of a 2023 Whiting Award and a recipient of a 2024 Arts and Letters Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her next collection, Such Beast as Joy, is forthcoming from Milkweed Editions in fall 2027.
Ama will teach her craft session “Doorways into Ekphrasis,” offer mentoring sessions to participants on an independent writing residency, and participate in the reading and conversation series.
Photo Credit: by David Heald © Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York