CooXooEii Black

CooXooEii Black (he/him) is an Afro-Indigenous member of the Northern Arapaho Tribe from the Wind River Reservation. His chapbook The Morning You Saw a Train of Stars Streaking Across the Sky won the 2022 Rattle Chapbook Prize. His poetry has been published in literary magazines including Rattle, Palette Poetry, Carve Magazine, and EcoTheo Review.

CooXooEii Black earned a BA in English with a focus on creative writing from Colorado College and an MFA in creative writing from the University of Memphis. While at the University of Memphis, he served as senior poetry editor for The Pinch Journal.