Lennox Lampkin is an award-winning author of poetry, prose, and children's books. He is the founder and director of the poetry program at The College of New Jersey, where he has been a faculty member since 1988. His books include the novel The Wind in the Willows (Viking, 2012), a collection of original poetry, The Good Life: An Illustrated Anthology of African American Fantastic Fiction (University Press of Mississippi, 2010), and a collection of essays on African American literature, African American Literature: A Critical Reader (Wiley-Blackwell, 2005). He has also co-edited five anthologies for children including Storycrafting: Creative Writing Activities for Authors and Illustrators (Cengage Learning, 2009)
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Prior to teaching at NJIT, he taught at the College of New Jersey for two years as a graduate assistant. In 1996 he received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to establish the Black Male Literary Project. In 2000 he was awarded a grant from the Commonwealth Fund to establish a creative writing program at NJIT.
Lampkin's publications include poems in Black Male Literary Project Anthology (2002) and in Redefining American Literature: Essays for a New Century (2004). He holds a Ph.D. from Rutgers University and an MFA from Washington University in St.
Louis.