Kameryn Alexa Carter

Kameryn Alexa Carter is a black poet. She is a founding co-editor of Emergent Literary, a journal for black and brown artists.  Her work has appeared in Bennington Review, Phoebe Journal, Torch Literary Arts, Bat City Review, The Best American Poetry 2023 and elsewhere. She was a 2024 Pushcart Prize winner, and is the author of Erykah Badu’s New Amerykah Part Two: Return of the Ankh (Bloomsbury Academic, 2025) and Antediluvian (forthcoming, University of Pittsburgh Press.) She is a poetry student in the Helen Zell Writers Program at the University of Michigan.