Thomas Kneeland is an award-winning poet, author, speaker, and visual artist. He is the author of the chapbook We Be Walkin’ Blackly in the Deep (Marian University Department of Media, Communication, and Design), and one of ten 2022 Frontier Poetry Global Poetry Prize finalists, for the continent of Africa. His poetry is published or forthcoming in Kitchen Table Quarterly, Up the Staircase Quarterly, South Florida Poetry Journal, INverse Poetry Archives, Clepsydra Literary & Art Magazine, Rigorous Magazine, and High Shelf Press.

Kneeland holds a B.A. in Creative Writing from DePauw University, an M.A. in Ministry—with a specialization in Worship Art—from Wesley Seminary at Indiana Wesleyan University, and is a thesis candidate in Butler University’s MFA Program in Creative Writing, where he studies poetry.