Cortney Lamar Charleston is a Cave Canem fellow, finalist for the 2015 Auburn Witness Poetry Prize and semi-finalist for the 2016 Discovery/Boston Review Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared, or are forthcoming, in Beloit Poetry Journal, Crab Orchard Review, Fugue, Hayden's Ferry Review, The Iowa Review, The Journal, New England Review, Pleiades, Rattle, Spillway and elsewhere.