Romus Simpson is a poet, cultural critic, and folklorist. His poems have appeared in Callaloo, Voices from Leimert Park, Southern California Anthology, Black Arts Quarterly, and Caffeine. He has won the Sara Henderson Hay Literary Prize, the Palabra Poetry Prize, the IBW-LA Nancy Hayes Poetry Prize, the Ann Stanford Poetry Prize (second place), and he was a 2012 PEN Center USA Emerging Voices Finalist.
