Kameryn Alexa Carter

http://kamerynalexacarter.com
Kameryn Alexa Carter, a black woman with curly brown hair and wearing a leopard print shirt, stands against the background of a nature preserve.
Photo by Rebecca Bernstein.

Kameryn Alexa Carter (she/her) is a Black poet and founding coeditor of Emergent Literary, a journal for Black and Brown artists. Her work has been published in SIXTYEIGHT2OHFIVE, Bennington Review, Phoebe, Torch Literary Arts, Bat City Review, The Best American Poetry 2023 (Simon & Schuster), and elsewhere. She won a 2024 Pushcart Prize, and is the author of Erykah Badu's New Amerykah Part Two (Return of the Ankh) for Bloomsbury's 33 1/3 series.