Cornelius Eady
Cornelius Eady is the author of several poetry collections, including Brutal Imagination; The Autobiography of a Jukebox; You Don't Miss Your Water; The Gathering of My Name, a Pulitzer Prize nominee; Victims of the Latest Dance Craze, which was the Lamont Poetry Selection of The Academy of American Poets; and Kartunes. Eady's honors include the Prairie Schooner Strousse Award and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Lila Wallace Reader's Digest Foundation. With Toi Derricotte he co-founded Cave Canem, which offers a safe supportive setting for African-American poets. Eady's play Running Man is a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and was awarded a 1999 Obie. Eady is currently a nominee for the National Book Award and a writer-in-residence at the City College of New York.
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