Dustin Pearson
Assistant Professor
FH 1620
dustin.pearson@utoledo.edu
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Dustin Pearson (MA, Clemson University, MFA, Arizona State University, PhD, Florida State University) is an Assistant Professor and teaches literature and creative writing courses in fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. He is the author of A Season in Hell with Rimbaud (BOA Editions, 2022), Millennial Roost (C&R Press, 2018), and A Family Is a House (C&R Press, 2019). In 2019, The Root named Dustin one of nine Black poets working in 鈥渁cademic, cultural and government institutions committed to elevating and preserving the poetry artform.鈥� In 2020, a film adaptation of his poem 鈥淭he Flame in Mother鈥檚 Mouth鈥� won Best Collaboration at the Cadence Video Poetry Festival. The recipient of fellowships from Cave Canem, the Bread Loaf Writers鈥� Conference, the Sewanee Writers鈥� Conference, the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing, and The Anderson Center at Tower View, Pearson has served as the editor of Hayden鈥檚 Ferry Review and a director of the Clemson Literary Festival. His writing has been recognized and featured by Shonda Rhimes and further distinguished by the Katherine C. Turner and John Mackay Shaw Academy of American Poets Awards and a 2021 Pushcart Prize. His work also appears in The Nation, Poetry Northwest, Blackbird, The Boiler, Bennington Review, TriQuarterly, The Literary Review, The Cortland Review, Poetry Daily, and elsewhere.
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