Derrick Harriell

Derrick Harriell holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Chicago State University and is currently a dissertator in UW-Milwaukee’s English PhD program where he also teaches Creative Writing. He’s worked as assistant poetry editor for Third World Press and is currently poetry editor for The Cream City Review. A 2009 Pushcart Nominee, Harriell’s poems have appeared in various literary journals and anthologies. Cotton (Aquarius Press-Willow Books 2010) is his first collection of poems.