Callaloo Announces New Genre Editors
Callaloo Literary Journal Announces New Genre Editors
Celebrating Its 50th Anniversary, Callaloo Literary Journal Announces New Genre Editors
Date: September 9, 2025
Media Contact: Rowana_ad@callalooliteraryjournal.com
SEPTEMBER 9, 2025,
Providence, RI –
Callaloo, one of the most prestigious and longstanding literary journals devoted to work by and about writers and artists of the African Diaspora, is proud to announce the appointment of five new Genre Editors: Tyree Daye (Co-Poetry Editor), Safia Elhillo (Co-Poetry Editor), Claire
Jiménez (Co-Fiction Editor), Kei Miller (Co-Fiction Editor), Keenan Norris (Co-Nonfiction).
Photo by: Kennedi Carter
Tyree Daye (Co-Poetry Editor)
Tyree Daye was raised in Youngsville, North Carolina. He is the author of the poetry collections a little bump in the earth (Copper Canyon Press, 2024), Cardinal (Copper Canyon Press, 2020), and River Hymns (American Poetry Review, 2017), winner of the APR/Honickman First Book Prize. A Cave Canem fellow and a Palm Beach Poetry Festival Langston Hughes Fellow, Daye is the recipient of a Whiting Writers Award, a Kate Tufts Award finalist, and a 2021 Paterson Prize finalist. He was the 2019 Diana and Simon Raab Writer-In-Residence at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and received an Amy Clampitt Residency. Daye is an Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. In January 2023, Daye served as Guest Editor of the Poem-a-Day series.
Kei Miller
(Co-Fiction Editor)
Kei Miller is the author of 11 books that range across genres – fiction, nonfiction and poetry. He is interested both in that movement between genres and between creative writing and literary scholarship. In 2014 he won the Forward Prize for Poetry for The Cartographer Tries to Map A Way To Zion. His Novel Augustown won the Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature. His collection of essays, Things I Have Withheld was shortlisted for the Bailley Gifford Prize. He has also written several essays of literary scholarship in the field of Caribbean Literature.
Kei joined the English Faculty at UM in 2021. He previously taught in the UK at the Universities of Exeter, London, and Glasgow. Kei has an MA in Creative Writing from Manchester Metropolitan University and a PhD in English Literature from the University of Glasgow. His dissertation examined the epistolary tradition in West Indian Literature.
Claire Jiménez
(Co-Fiction Editor)
Claire Jiménez is a Puerto Rican writer who grew up in Brooklyn and Staten Island, New York. She is the author of the short story collection Staten Island Stories (Johns Hopkins Press, 2019) and What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez (Grand Central, 2023), which was awarded the 2024 PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction. She received her M.F.A. from Vanderbilt University and her PhD in English with specializations in Ethnic Studies and Digital Humanities from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, where she served as Fiction Editor for the venerable literary journal, Prairie Schooner. She is co-founder of the Puerto Rican Literature Project, a digital archive documenting the lives and work of hundreds of Puerto Rican writers, scholars, translators, and digital humanists working in collaboration with the US Latino Digital Humanities Center and Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage program at Arte Público Press, supported by the Mellon Foundation. She is an Assistant Professor of English and African American Studies at the University of South Carolina.
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Safia Elhillo
(Co-Poetry Editor)
Safia Elhillo is the author of The January Children(University of Nebraska Press, 2017), which received the the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets and an Arab American Book Award, Girls That Never Die (One World/Random House, 2022), and the novel in verse Home Is Not A Country (Make Me A World/Random House, 2021), which was longlisted for the National Book Award. Her latest novel in verse, Bright Red Fruit (Make Me a World/Random House, 2024), was a finalist for the Kirkus Prize.
Sudanese by way of Washington, DC, Safia received the 2015 Brunel International African Poetry Prize, and was listed in Forbes Africa’s 2018 “30 Under 30.” Her work has appeared in Best American Poetry, The Penguin Book of Migration Literature, and the New Yorker, among others. Her work has been translated into several languages, and commissioned by Under Armour, Cuyana, and the Bavarian State Ballet. She is co-editor of the anthology Halal If You Hear Me (Haymarket Books, 2019). Her fellowships include a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, Cave Canem, and a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University.
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Keenan Norris
(Nonfiction Editor)
Keenan Norris is a novelist, essayist, and scholar. His latest novel is The Confession of Copeland Cane, the winner of the 2022 Northern California Book Award. His essays have garnered the 2021-22 National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Award in Music, Theater and Performing Arts and the 2021 Folio: Eddie Award. His other books include the non-fiction work Chi Boy: Native Sons and Chicago Reckonings and his debut novel Brother and the Dancer, which received the James D. Houston Award in 2012.
Keenan has served as Lannan Visiting Writer at the Institute of American Indian Arts (2023), Rea Visiting Writer at the University of Virginia (2021) and he was California editor and contributing scholar for the Oxford African-American Studies Center for several years in the 2010s. Since 2022, he’s served as coordinator of the Steinbeck Fellows Program at San Jose State University where he is an Associate Professor.
Callaloo is Celebrating 50 Years of Literary Excellence!
Join us as we celebrate 50 years of publication by welcoming these brilliant poets and writers who have chosen to serve our mission to uphold and empower distinguished art and literature of the African Diaspora. For media inquiries or interview requests, please contact: Rowana_ad@callalooliteraryjournal.com.
About Callaloo
With its emphasis on critical studies of the arts and humanities, as well as creative writing, Callaloo has emerged as the most essential and continuously published journal in matters pertinent to African American and African Diaspora Studies worldwide.
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