2023 Starshine and Clay Fellows:
Edil Hassan
Edil Hassan is the author of Dugsi Girl (Akashic Press, 2021) which was selected by Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani for the New Generation of African Poets series. A finalist for the 2022 Brunel International African Poetry Prize, her work has appeared in Poetry magazine, the Academy of American Poets, Guernica, and is anthologized in Halal If You Hear Me (Haymarket Books, 2019). She is a graduate of the MFA at Washington University in St. Louis, where she is the senior poetry fellow.
Kenny Carroll
Kenny Carroll is a writer from DC. He was the 2017 DC Youth Poet Laureate, and in 2019 received the Thomas Lux Scholarship from Sarah Lawrence. His work has been featured in Split This Rock’s The Quarry, The Hill Rag, and Beltway Quarterly, among others. He is a Watering Hole and Obsidian fellow, as well as a teacher for students of all ages. You can find him online @Kennyc113