Cortney Lamar Charleston

Cortney Lamar Charleston is the author of three poetry collections: It’s Important I Remember (Curbstone Books/Northwestern University Press, 2026); Doppelgangbanger (Haymarket Books, 2021); and Telepathologies (Saturnalia Books, 2017), selected by D.A. Powell for the 2016 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize. 

His awards and honors include a Pushcart Prize and a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, as well as fellowships from Cave Canem and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. Charleston lives in Jersey City.