Camonghne Felix

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Camonghne Felix received an MA in arts politics from New York University and an MFA from Bard College. 

Felix is the author Dyscalculia (Penguin Random House, 2023) and Build Yourself a Boat (Haymarket Books, 2019), which was long-listed for the 2019 National Book Award in Poetry. She is also the author of the nonfiction work Let the Poets Govern: A Declaration of Freedom (One World, 2026), long-listed for the National Book Award in Nonfiction.

The 2013 winner of the Cora Craig Award for Young Women, Felix has received fellowships from Cave Canem, Callaloo, and Poets House.