Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers is a poet, writer, and essayist. She is the author of five books of poetry, most recently The Age of Phillis (2020) and The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois (2021). The Age of Phillis was long-listed for the 2020 National Book Award in Poetry. Jeffers has received fellowships from the American Antiquarian Society, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Witter Bynner Foundation through the Library of Congress, among others, and she has received two lifetime achievement notations, including induction into the Alabama Writers Hall of Fame. Jeffers is professor of English at University of Oklahoma.