Brian Gyamfi, MFA

Teaching Professor, English

Brian Gyamfi is the author of What God in the Kingdom of Bastards. He is a recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize, the Zell Fellowship, and two Hopwood Awards. A finalist for the Oxford Poetry Prize and the Poetry International Prize, his writing has appeared in Poetry, Narrative, Guernica, The Adroit Journal, and elsewhere. Gyamfi graduated summa cum laude with honors from the University of Texas, earning his BA, and later received his MFA from the University of Michigan. His libretto The Ants Are Illuminated was commissioned by Overtone Industry for their Original Vision opera. Gyamfi serves as a contributing editor at Oxford Poetry.