Chad Abushanab is the winner of the 2018 Donald Justice Poetry Prize. His debut poetry collection, The Last Visit, was selected by Jericho Brown and published by Autumn House Press in March 2019.
His poems have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Believer, Best New Poets, Poetry Daily, Birmingham Poetry Review, Ecotone, Southern Poetry Review, Measure: A Journal of Formal Poetry, Shenandoah, The Hopkins Review, Unsplendid, and 32 Poems, among others.
He holds a BA in English from the College of Charleston, an MFA in Creative Writing from Vanderbilt University, and a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from Texas Tech University.
He is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing in the MFA program at the University of North Carolina Wilmington.
If you are interested scheduling an interview, reading, or workshop, please email Chad Abushanab at abushanab.chad@gmail.com.
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