Willie Lee Kinard III

Poet, designer, and musician Willie Lee Kinard III (he/they) earned a BFA from the University of South Carolina and an MFA from the University of Pittsburgh. His publications include Orders of Service (Alice James Books, 2023), winner of the 2022 Alice James Award; a self-published chapbook/mixtape, chroma. (2016); and work in Obsidian, Poem-a-Day, Best New Poets 2022, the Boston Review, and The Rumpus, among others. Kinard is the winner of a 2023 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship. The recipient of fellowships from The Watering Hole and the Pittsburgh Foundation and a Pushcart Prize nominee, Kinard is from Newberry, South Carolina, and currently teaches at the University of South Carolina.