John Murillo is a two-time Larry Neal Writers' Award winner, a New York Times Poetry Fellow, and Cave Canem alum. A recent graduate of New York University's MFA program in creative writing, his poetry has appeared in such publications as Ploughshares, Ninth Letter, Lumina, and the anthology DC POETS AGAINST THE WAR. A former instructor with DCWritersCorps and coach of Washington D.C.'s 2001 and 2005 National Teen Poetry Slam Teams, John has performed his own work in a wide array of venues, from the Kennedy Center to the Bowery Poetry Club. This fall, he begins his residency as a Creative Writing Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Presented in partnership with Cave Canem.