Rohan Preston was born in Jamaica, reared in New York and lives in Chicago. He won the 1997 Henry Blakely, Jr., Poetry Prize and was awarded an Artist Fellowship in Poetry from the Illinois Arts Council. His poems have appeared in The Atlanta Review, Crab Orchard Review, Eyeball, Hammers, Jackleg and Ploughshares. His poetry collections include (Tia Chucha, 1992) and Lovesong to My Father (Tallawa, 1996). He co-edited Soulfires: Young Black Men on Love and Violence (Penguin, 1996).