Whiting Awards
1 appearances
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Edition 37 (2022) Winner
Anaïs Duplan
アナイス・デュプラン
Anaisu Dyuran
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1992 （Jacmel, Haiti）
- Nationality
- Haitian, American
- Languages
- English
- Residence History
- Jacmel, Haiti → Boston, United States → Brooklyn, United States → Cuba → Rhode Island, United States → Bennington, Vermont, United States → Iowa City, Iowa, United States
Career
- Occupations
- poet, nonfiction writer, professor, curator
- Active Years
- 2016-2024
- Affiliations
- Bennington College, Center for Afrofuturist Studies
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rhode Island School of Design | — | — | — | — | United States |
| Bennington College | — | Literature | — | — | United States |
| Iowa Writers' Workshop | — | — | — | — | United States |
Rhode Island School of Design
Country:
United States
Bennington College
Literature
Year of Graduation:
2014
Country:
United States
Iowa Writers' Workshop
Year of Graduation:
2017
Country:
United States
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Whiting Award | Blackspace: On the Poetics of an Afrofuture | nonfiction | Whiting Foundation | winner |
| 2021 | Marian Goodman Fellowship | — | — | Independent Curators International | fellow |
| 2021 | QUEER|ART|PRIZE | — | — | — | winner |
| 2022 | Black Visionaries Award | — | — | Instagram and Brooklyn Museum | winner |
Whiting Award
2022
Work:
Blackspace: On the Poetics of an Afrofuture
Category:
nonfiction
Organization:
Whiting Foundation
Result:
winner
Marian Goodman Fellowship
2021
Organization:
Independent Curators International
Result:
fellow
QUEER|ART|PRIZE
2021
Result:
winner
Black Visionaries Award
2022
Organization:
Instagram and Brooklyn Museum
Result:
winner
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Take This Stallion
2016 poetryPoems that tactfully manage to stir the comical and casual into themes of pain, crippling emotional uncertainty, substance abuse, and death.
paingender normsdeath
Blackspace: On the Poetics of an Afrofuture
2020 nonfictionExplores meanings of transition and passing in gender, poetics of Afrofuture, including effects of testosterone therapy.
AfrofuturismtransgenderBlack performance
I NEED MUSIC
2021 poetryExperimental poetry collection praised by poets like Jericho Brown.
musicperception
Bibliography
- Take This Stallion (Brooklyn Arts Press, 2016)
- Mount Carmel and the Blood of Parnassus (Monster House Press, 2017)
- Blackspace: On the Poetics of an Afrofuture (Black Ocean, 2020)
- I NEED MUSIC (Action Books, 2021)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- experimentaltheoreticaljournalisticmanifesto-style
- Recurring Motifs
- Afrofuturismgender transitionBlack socialityidentity
Legacy
Emerging poet and nonfiction writer recipient of Whiting Award. Founder of Center for Afrofuturist Studies, noted for Afrofuturist themes and queer/trans perspectives.
Trivia
- Haitian-born queer and transgender American writer.
- Founded the Center for Afrofuturist Studies in 2016.
- Contract terminated by Museum Folkwang in 2023 over pro-Palestine Instagram posts.