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Herve
Comeau Syracuse ( @ herve_ yves ) is the winner of the 2018 Juniper
Prize for Poetry for his first book, Children of the Down-swing. A first
generation immigrant from Haiti, a writer, activist, and lawyer, Comeau was a
winner of the Leonard Brown Poetry Prize, a recipient of the Cornelia Carhart
Ward fellowship, and a finalist for the Olive B OConnor Fellowship. A graduate
of Syracuse Universitys prest igious MFA program, his poetry has appeared in
****, his fiction in Hobart, and more fiction is set to appear in the anthology
Time Travel for All of Us. Comeau is currently working as a public interest
immigration attorney in Syracuse, New York, where he serves on the advisory
board of the New York Civil Liberties Union, and is a founding member of Black
Lives Matter Syracuse.
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