Quenton Baker

Quenton Baker is a poet and educator who is a Cave Canem fellow. Their work centers on black interiority and the afterlife of slavery. They have published in The Offing, Jubilat, Prairie Schooner, and The Rumpus. They received a 2021 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship and served as a Robert Rauschenberg Artist in Residence. Their book ballast was published by Haymarket Books in 2023, and a second collection, the beast comes to you as smoke, is listed as forthcoming from Haymarket in 2027.