#AWP25 Faculty Fellows

Brittny Ray Crowell

Brittny Ray Crowell (she/her/hers) is an assistant professor of English at Clark Atlanta University. A recipient of the Inprint Donald Barthelme Prize in Poetry and the Lucy Terry Prince Prize, she has published poems in Split Lip, Copper Nickel, TriQuarterly, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. Her work as a librettist has been featured at The Ohio State University and the Kennedy Center’s Cartography Project.

Isaac Hughes Green

Isaac Hughes Green is a writer from Durham, North Carolina, and an adjunct instructor at North Carolina Central University whose work has been published in the Georgia Review, the Oxford American, and Best Debut Short Stories 2021: The PEN America Dau Prize. His work has won the 2021 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers and the 2021 Jacobs/Jones African-American Literary Prize. He was a 2023 Hurston/Wright summer fellow and has won several screenwriting awards and a cinematography award. He earned an MFA from North Carolina State University and a BFA from NYU Tisch School of the Arts.

Ebony Lumumba

Ebony Lumumba is an associate professor of English at Jackson State University, where she chairs the Department of English and Modern Languages and teaches courses in global and American literatures. Lumumba specializes in transnational Black women’s writing and postcolonial literatures of the Global South. She writes, teaches, and thinks most about Black women as integral to Black liberation.

#AWP25 Student Fellows

Corinne Fuller

Corinne Fuller is an avid reader and writer with an English degree from Spelman College. She indulges in crocheting and exploring the great outdoors when she isn’t penning her novels and scripts. As a #AWP25 HBCU student fellow, Fuller is excited to share her unique voice with the literary world.

Ja’Nya Henderson

Ja’Nya Henderson is a proud writer who goes by MinnieAynaj. For Henderson, creative expression means giving her writing the opportunity to breathe as a living being. Henderson’s art is a living presentation of her own existence as a human being.

Veronica Holmes

Veronica Holmes, a native of Memphis, Tennessee, is a senior honors student at Fisk University studying English and African American studies. Holmes is also a published writer and has been featured in Love Girls Magazine and served as a guest columnist for the Commercial Appeal newspaper in Memphis.

Kamryn Hughes

Kamryn Hughes is a junior at Texas Southern University with a major in English and a concentration in professional writing. She was born and raised in Southern California and is an aspiring author who wants to use her creative mind in the fashion industry and to write young adult novels. Hughes has received many academic achievement awards, including the 2024 Martin Beller Award for Writing Excellence. She is expecting to complete and publish her first novel in fall 2025. Her hobbies include reading, writing, attending concerts, drawing, and shopping! Hughes is also a member of Cathedral of Praise International Ministries.

John Poitier

John Shaquille Poitier Jr. is a nineteen-year-old native of Freeport, Grand Bahama, The Bahamas. Poitier enjoys being creative, having written three books, and he aims to produce more art in various mediums. In his free time, Poitier enjoys traveling, spending time with his family and friends, and participating in his community and church.

Destini Rainer

Destini Rainer is from Memphis, Tennessee, and attends Tennessee State University, where she is majoring in English and political science. As she pursues a legal career, Rainer has always valued learning about legal matters. She enjoys reading and writing, especially poetry. Rainer devotes her time to developing her craft and achieving her goals.