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Poetry — Karisma Price (Whiting Award 2025)

by Karisma Price

Whiting Award · 2025 · Winner
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Award History

AwardYearStatus
Whiting Award2025Winner

About This Book

Karisma Price is recognized for her debut poetry collection I Was Born in a Thunder, which writes about Black womanhood, grief, and the American South with formal invention and emotional power. This record is a writer-level placeholder for her Whiting Award.

About the Author

Karisma PriceAmerican

Karisma Price is a poet, screenwriter, and media artist, and an assistant professor of English at Tulane University. A native New Orleanian with an MFA from NYU and BA from Columbia, her debut poetry collection I'm Always So Serious (Sarabande Books, 2023) was a New York Times Editors' Choice and won the 2025 Whiting Award.Tulane University, Karisma Price website, Poets.org

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