Darius Simpson

Darius Simpson is a writer, educator, performer, and disruptor from Akron, Ohio. His first poetry collection is Conversion Theory (2018). He earned his BA in Political Science from Eastern Michigan University and is a candidate for an MFA in Creative Writing-Poetry from Mills College. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Adroit Journal, American Poetry Review, Crab Creek Review, and elsewhere. He serves as a teaching artist, working with middle and high school students throughout Oakland and San Francisco. He believes in the total liberation of all oppressed people by any means necessary. In 2020, Simpson was a recipient of the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation.