Ameen Animashaun

Ameen Animashaun is a poet and essayist whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in Poets.org, Rattle Magazine, Salamander, Lolwe, Foglifter, Vast Chasm, and elsewhere. A graduate of the MFA program at Washington University in St. Louis, he is the winner of the 2024 Academy of American Poets A. E. Claeyssens Jr. Poetry Prize and a recipient of the 2024 Starshine and Clay Fellowship. His full-length manuscript was a finalist for the 2024 Sillerman First Book Prize, his chapbook, Calling a Spade, was a finalist for the 2024 Robert Phillips Poetry Chapbook Prize, and his writing has been supported by the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. He is an oddball; a butterfly.