SDS Member Featured Poet at Tempe Center for the Arts

Renee Simms, winner of the 2003 Inkwell Grand Prize in Poetry, selected by Elizabeth Alexander, has had poetry and fiction in numerous journals and anthologies, including North American Review, Hawai’i Review, Oregon Literary Review, Inkwell Journal and “Step Into a World: A Global Anthology of the New Black Literature” (Wiley & Sons 2000). She has received fellowships from Cave Canem, PEN’s Emerging Voices Program and the Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation.