Darrel Alejandro Holnes is an Afro-Panamanian American writer. His plays have received productions or readings at the Kennedy Center for the Arts American College Theater Festival (KCACTF), The Brick Theater, Kitchen Theater Company, Pregones Theater/PRTT, Primary Stages, and elsewhere. He is a member of the Lincoln Center Director’s Lab, Civilians R&D Group, Page 73’s Interstate 73 Writers Workshop, and other groups. His most recent play, Black Feminist Video Game , was produced by The Civilians for 59E59, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Center Theater Group, and other theaters and venues and won an inaugural Anthem Award. He is the founder of the Greater Good Commission and Festival, a festival of Latinx short plays.

Holnes is the author of Migrant Psalms (Northwestern University Press, 2021) and Stepmotherland (Notre Dame Press, 2022). He is the recipient of the Andres Montoya Poetry Prize from Letras Latinas, the Drinking Gourd Poetry Prize, and a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in Creative Writing (Poetry). His poem "Praise Song for My Mutilated World" won the C. P. Cavafy Poetry Prize from Poetry International. He is an assistant professor of English at Medgar Evers College, a senior college of the City University of New York (CUNY), and a faculty member at New York University. For more information visit www.darrelholnes.com

POETRY: “Marvelous Sugar Baby,” The American Poetry Review

POETRY: “Rihanna & Child,” National Endowment for the Arts

REVIEW: “A biracial teen with autism, his ‘Black feminist video game’ and the power of play,” Los Angeles Times

PODCAST: “Art Works - Darrel Alejandro Holnes,” National Endowment for the Arts

Winner of the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize

Winner of the Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize

Un-discovering America/Discovering Abya Yala: Developing Afro-Indigenous Poetry and Practice

Creating the Creative Altar: Self-Made Altars as Fountains of Creativity

The Ritual of Writing: Developing an Everyday Writing Practice