Douglas Manuel's first full length collection, Testify (Red Hen Press, 2017), won an IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award for poetry. His poems are featured on Poetry Foundation's website and have appeared in Pleiades, Poetry Northwest, The Los Angeles Review, Superstition Review, Rhino, North American Review, The Chattahoochee Review, New Orleans Review, Crab Creek Review and elsewhere. He is a Middleton and Dornsife Fellow at the Univ. of Southern California, pursuing a PhD in literature and creative writing. Manuel has served as poetry editor for Gold Line Press and managing editor of Ricochet Editions. A native of Indiana, he received a BA in Creative Writing from Arizona State Univ. and an MFA from Butler Univ. where he was managing editor of the literary journal, Boot.
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