THOMAS KNEELAND is the Pushcart-nominated author of the chapbook, We Be Walkin’ Blackly in the Deep. His poetry and writing explores ancestry, ecological memory, and the effects of intergenerational trauma within Black, Afro Latine, and Afro Indigenous contexts. A recent recipient of the Edward Stanley Award for poems published in Prairie Schooner, his publication credits include Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora, Southern Humanities Review, Columbia Journal, Hayden’s Ferry Review, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. Kneeland was recently nominated for Hayden’s Ferry Review’s Best of Small Fiction Anthology. Named a 2025 Emerging Scholar by The EDU Ledger, Kneeland is currently an Assistant Professor of English at Anderson University.