Kwame Dawes

University of Nebraska

Founding editor of the APBF, Dawes joined the UNL faculty as a Chancellor’s Professor in 2011 and took the helm of the Prairie Schooner, UNL’s quarterly literary magazine that for the past 90 years has published the fiction, poetry, essays and reviews of talented writers of all levels. He is the author of 16 poetry collections, three works of fiction, and several anthologies, produced plays, and books of literary criticism and aesthetics, not counting forthcoming works. His long list of accomplishments includes a Guggenheim Fellowship and a 2009 Emmy Award for a multimedia documentary project on HIV/AIDS in Jamaica.