Christian Campbell

Christian Campbell, of The Bahamas and Trinidad and Tobago, is a poet, cultural critic, journalist and culture worker. He read for an MPhil in English at Balliol College, University of Oxford as the 2002 Commonwealth Caribbean Rhodes Scholar and completed a PhD at Duke University. He has presented his work in the Caribbean, the US, the UK and Switzerland, and is widely published in journals and anthologies on both sides of the Atlantic. A Cave Canem Poetry Fellow and Arvon Foundation graduate, he was a member of the Bahamian National Swim Team. During his time at Oxford, he co-founded Slice( ) Mango, a collective of Oxford writers working in non-canonical traditions; they are currently preparing to find a publisher for their inaugural anthology. His manuscript, Running the Dusk, was named runner-up finalist for the 2005 Cave Canem Poetry Prize by Sonia Sanchez.Links to Christian's poetry on the web: http://www.mipoesias.com/EVIESHOCKLEYISSUE/campbell_c.html http://www.oxonianreview.org/issues/3-2/issue-3-2.html http://www.nyu.edu/calabash/vol4no2/0402019.pdf http://www.nyu.edu/calabash/vol1no1/