Benjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley

Benjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley’s poetry collection, Not Your Mama's Melting Pot , was selected for the 2017 Backwaters Prize. His work has appeared in Best New Poets , Boston Review , The Poetry Review , and Tin House , among others. He is the recipient of a fellowship from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and scholarships from Sewanee, Tin House , and VONA/Voices of Our Nation. He belongs to the Onondaga Nation of Indigenous Americans in New York and is the 2017–2019 Gilman School Tickner Writing Fellow.