Derrick Harriell

Derrick Harriell is the author of Come Kingdom (LSU Press, 2022) and the Ottilie Schillig Associate Professor of English and African American Studies at the University of Mississippi where he directs the African American Studies program.

His previous poetry collections include Stripper in Wonderland (LSU Press, 2017), Cotton (Aquarius Press-Willow Books 2010), and Ropes (Aquarius Press, 2014), winner of the 2014 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Poetry Book Award. Born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, he holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Chicago State University and a PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.