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Thomas Kneeland is a Black poet, scholar, professor, artist and budding memoirist. His poems appear — or are forthcoming — in Prairie Schooner, Columbia Journal, Modern Language Studies Journal, The Rumpus, The Amistad, South Florida Poetry Journal and elsewhere. He is the author of the chapbook, We Be Walkin’ Blackly in the Deep. A finalist for the 2022 Frontier Poetry Global Poetry Prize, he has received grants and fellowships from the Indiana University-Indianapolis Speculative Play & Just Futurities Program and the Central Indiana Community Foundation. He was recently named a 2025 Emerging Scholar by Diverse: Issues in Higher Education. Kneeland was previously a Writing Faculty member for the LEDA Scholars Aspects of Leadership Summer Institute at Princeton University. Originally from California, and raised in Mississippi, he holds an MFA in creative writing from Butler University and is currently an Assistant Professor of English at Anderson University.