Randall Horton
Randall Horton is a writer, poet, and artist originally from Birmingham, Alabama. He is the recipient of the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Award, the Bea Gonzalez Poetry Award, the Great Lakes College Association New Writers Award for Creative Nonfiction, a National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship in Literature, and a Soze Foundation Right to Return Fellowship.
Horton’s latest collection of poetry, {#289-128}, was published by the University of Kentucky Press in 2020 and received the American Book Award in 2021. He is also the author of Pitch Dark Anarchy (Triquarterly/Northwestern University Press, 2013), The Definition of Place (Main Street Rag, 2010), and The Lingua France of Ninth Street (Main Street Rag, 2009). He has published two memoirs: Dead Weight: A Memoir in Essays (Northwestern University Press, 2021) and Hook: A Memoir (Augury Books, 2015).
Horton is a former member of the experimental performance group Heroes Are Gang Leaders, which received an American Book Award in Oral Literature. Their music project The Baraka Sessions was named best vocal jazz album by NPR in 2019. Horton is also co-founder of Radical Reversal, a music project with an emphasis on justice equity through the investigation of sound.
Horton holds a BA in English from the University of the District of Columbia, an MFA in poetry from Chicago State University, and a PhD in English and creative writing from SUNY Albany. He is a professor of English at the University of New Haven.
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