Ajanaé Dawkins is a poet, conceptual artist and theologian. Her work has appeared in the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, The Rumpus, Prairie Schooner, the Indiana Review, Frontier Poetry, The BreakBeat Poets Black Girl Magic Anthology and more. Her chapbook, BLOOD-FLEX, won the New Delta Review’s Chapbook prize and is forthcoming in Spring 2025.
Ajanaé Dawkins is a poet, conceptual artist and theologian. Her work has appeared in the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, The Rumpus, Prairie Schooner, the Indiana Review, Frontier Poetry, The BreakBeat Poets Black Girl Magic Anthology and more. Her solo-exhibition, No One Teaches Us How To Be Daughters, debuted at Urban Arts Space in 2024. Her chapbook, BLOOD-FLEX, won the New Delta Review’s Chapbook prize and is forthcoming in Spring 2025. Ajanaé has performed for the United Nations Secretary of Sexual Violence in Conflict. She contributed to the Solomon R. Guggenheim’s Poetry is Not a Luxury project, led by Ama Codjoe. Her work has been featured on PBS, For Harriet, and Def Jam. She is the winner of the Tinderbox Poetry Journal’s Editors Prize. She was the Taft Museum’s 2022 Duncanson Artist in Residence and is a fellow of Torch Literary, The Watering Hole, and Pink Door. Ajanaé is currently a co-host of the VS Podcast with the Poetry Foundation, Ohio State University’s UAS Community Artist-in-Residence, and the Theology Editor for the EcoTheo Review.
