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Born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Kwame Opoku-Duku is a Ghanaian-American poet and fiction writer. His debut chapbook, The Unbnd Verses (Glass Poetry Press)—a striking and deeply personal collection of poetry that explores themes of identity, spirituality, loss, and the complexities of the human experience —was selected for the 2018-2019 Glass Chapbook Series. Kwame’s work is featured in numerous publications, including The Atlantic, The Nation, POETRY, The Rumpus, The Kenyon Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, BOMB, The Yale Review, and The American Poetry Review.

Kwame is an alumnus of Columbia University, where he honed his craft and developed his unique voice. When he's not writing, Kwame is an educator in New York City, where he inspires and educates the next generation of writers. An active member of the literary community, Kwame has served as an associate poetry editor for BOAAT Journal, an Adroit Journal mentor, and as a teaching artist with 826NYC. Kwame curates the reading series Dear Ocean, which centers work that engages climate change and environmental justice. It was originally supported by an Impact Artist Fellowship through the Human Impacts Institute. In 2017, Kwame and Karisma Price founded the Unbnd Collective.

Kwame is represented by Annie DeWitt at The Shipman Agency