Herve Comeau Syracuse - Honolulu

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.