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Gregory Pardlo is the author of Digest (Four Way Books, 2014), which was nominated for the 2015 NAACP Image Award in Poetry and won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, and Totem, which received the APR/Honickman Prize in 2007. His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Boston Review, The Nation, Ploughshares, and Tin House, as well as anthologies including Angles of Ascent, the Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry, and two editions of Best American Poetry. He is the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship and a fellowship for translation from the National Endowment for the Arts. An Associate Editor of Callaloo, he is currently a Teaching Fellow in Undergraduate Writing at Columbia University.