Jorrell Watkins

Jorrell Watkins is from Richmond, VA. He is an alum of Hampshire College and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He received fellowships from the Smithsonian Institution, Fulbright Japan and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. His chapbook, If Only the Sharks Would Bite, won the inaugural Desert Pavilion Chapbook Series in Poetry (Black Rock Press, 2020). He is the author of PlayHouse: poems (Northwestern University Press, 2024). His poems have been published by LARB Quarterly, Black Warrior Review, Bennington Review, Obsidian, and elsewhere. Currently, he lives in Los Angeles.