Chekwube Danladi is the author of Semiotics (University of Georgia Press, 2020), winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, selected by Evie Shockley, as well as a 2022 Independent Artist Award from the Maryland State Arts Council. She has received fellowships and support from Callaloo, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Hedgebrook, Jack Jones Literary Arts, Kimbilio for Black Fiction, the Lambda Literary Foundation, Vermont Studio Center, the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, and elsewhere. Her chapbook, Take Me Back, was included in the New Generation African Poets: Nne boxset. Her visual work has been commissioned by the Center for Afrofuturist Studies (a program of PS1), Already Felt: Poetry in Revolt and Bounty, Langer/Dickie, and the Black Poetry Review. She is the 2022-25 Writer-in-Residence at Occidental College and lives in Los Angeles.