Bio

Prince Bush is a poet from Nashville, TN whose poems appear in Cherry Tree, The Drift, The Cortland Review, Northwest Review, and elsewhere. He received a fellowship from the Bucknell Seminar for Undergraduate Poets while earning his BA in English as an Erastus Milo Cravath Presidential Scholar at Fisk University. Currently a PhD student in Creative Writing at the University of Cincinnati as a Yates Fellow, Prince Bush earned his MFA in English (Creative Writing) as a Truman Capote Literary Fellow from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. - Poets & Writers

Experience

Bucknell Seminar for Undergraduate Poets Fellow (2018)

Editorial Assistant, Poetry Northwest (2022 – 2023)

Commissioned by The Porch for Poetry In Motion (“Commute,” “To Downtown,” and “Transit” 2020)

Yates Fellow, University of Cincinnati (PhD Creative Writing 2028)

Erastus Milo Cravath Presidential Scholar, Fisk University (B.A. English; Minor, Women and Gender Studies, 2020; summa cum laude)

First-Round Poetry Judge, Porch Prize (2020 – present)

Instructor, “Poetry Writing,” University of Iowa (Fall ‘23)

Intern, BookPage (2019 – 2020)

Kenyon Review Writers Workshop Participant (2023)

Mentor, The Bridge (2022 – present)

Poetry Reader, The Iowa Review (2023 – present)

Poetry Reader, TriQuarterly (2021 – 2022)

Truman Capote Literary Fellow, University of Iowa (MFA English (Creative Writing), 2024)