Jonah Mixon-Webster is a poet and conceptual/sound artist from Flint, Michigan. His debut collection Stereo(TYPE) won the Sawtooth Poetry Prize and the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry, and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry. He graduated from Eastern Michigan University and received a PhD in creative writing from Illinois State University. He is the recipient of the Windham-Campbell Prize for Poetry, and fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center, the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics, the Conversation Literary Festival, and the PEN America Writing for Justice program.

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