Kwoya Fagin Maples

A black woman in loop rings and black tank top
Courtesy of the poet

Kwoya Fagin Maples is the author of Mend (University Press of Kentucky, 2018), which was a finalist for both the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Poetry and the Housatonic Book Award for Poetry. Maples teaches in the MFA program for creative writing at the University of Alabama, home of Black Warrior Review.