giovanni singleton is the author of Ascension, informed by the life and work of Alice Coltrane, which won the California Book Award Gold Medal and AMERICAN LETTERS: works on paper, a collection of visual art and poetry. She is founding editor of nocturnes (re)view of the literary arts, a journal dedicated to experimental work of the African Diaspora and other contested spaces. singleton is the recipient of the African American Literature and Culture Society�s Stephen E. Henderson Award for Outstanding Achievement in Poetry. She most recently served as the 2017-18 Holloway Lecturer in Poetry at the University of California, Berkeley where she coordinates the monthly Lunch Poems reading series.