Claretta Holsey has received a Jane Mead Fellowship for her poetry and a Global Africa Translation Fellowship from the Africa Institute in Sharjah. Her poems and creative non-fiction have appeared in New Delta Review, The Columbia Review, Eclectica Magazine, PromptPress, on poets.org, and elsewhere. A book of her ekphrastic poems—inspired by the artwork of Malcolm Corley and written in collaboration with fellow poets Jorrell Watkins, DJ Savarese, and Lateef McLeod—was published by PromptPress in fall 2021. Her poem “com(promise” was selected by Roger Reeves as a finalist for the 2024 Furious Flower Poetry Prize. She holds an MFA in Literary Translation from the University of Iowa and an MFA in Poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She is the production editor at Copper Canyon Press.