Brittny Ray Crowell

Brittny Ray Crowell, Ph.D. (she/her/hers) is a poet, artist, and assistant professor of English at Clark Atlanta University. A recipient of the Donald Barthelme Prize in Poetry and the Lucy Terry Prince Prize, her poems have appeared in The Common, Copper Nickel, The Journal, Ploughshares, and elsewhere.

Her work as a librettist has been featured at Ohio State University and the Kennedy Center’s Cartography Project. Her current work and research focuses on multimodality and intuitive witness in Black poetry as well as food traditions and rituals in Black culture.

Her debut poetry collection, Cord Swell, will be released by W.W. Norton in October of 2025.

Learn more at Brittny Ray Crowell’s official website.