Camonghne Felix is the director of surrogates & strategic communications at Elizabeth Warren for President. Last week, she was nominated for a National Book Award in poetry for her debut collection, “Build Yourself a Boat.”
Awards longlist for her poetry!” Warren wrote on Twitter. “I’m honored to have you on my team.”
"One of the first things I was thinking a lot about is the way that the literary world requires us to categorize ourselves in order to be legible or readable. Something I wanted to push back at really hard in this collection was using the word Black as a way to define Blackness," Felix said in an interview with
Felix told Electric Literature that she is currently working on another poetry collection titled “Dyscalculia,” which she says is about heartbreak. “I don’t have the words to thank all of you the way I would like to, but just know, I only imagined this in my wildest dreams and never imagined that there would be so many people sharing this with me,” Felix wrote on Twitter. “If I never win the NBA or any other award in life, this would be enough. Love u.”
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