Bio

Anaïs Duplan

Anaïs Duplan is a trans* poet, curator, and artist. His book of essays, Blackspace: On the Poetics of an Afrofuture, was published by Black Ocean in 2022. He is a professor of postcolonial literature at Bennington College and the recipient of a 2022 Whiting Award in Nonfiction. In 2016, Duplan founded the Center for Afrofuturist Studies, a residency program for artists of color, based at Iowa City's artist-run organization Public Space One.