Kwoya Fagin Maples holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Alabama. She is
a Cave Canem Fellow and a current Alabama State Council on the Arts Literary Fellow. Her
work has been published in the chapbook Something of Yours, as well as the Blackbird Literary
Journal, Obsidian, Berkeley Poetry Review, The African-American Review, Pluck!, and Cave
Canem Anthology XIII. Mend was a finalist for AWPs Donald Hall Prize for Poetry. Maples
teaches Creative Writing at the Alabama School of Fine Arts and directs a three-dimensional
poetry exhibit that features poetry and visual art. She is from Charleston, South Carolina.
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