[Suspended] by David Maduli

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November 15, 2020

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Contributor Notes

David S. Maduli is a veteran public school teacher, deejay and father of two. He is an alumnus of the VONA, Las Dos Brujas, and Napa Valley Writers’ workshops, and is a recipient of the Joy Harjo Poetry Prize. Born in San Francisco and raised all over, he is a longtime resident of Oakland, California. He holds an MEd in Teaching & Curriculum from Harvard Graduate School of Education, and he completed his MFA in Creative Writing at Mills College with a fellowship in Community Poetics. His work is most recently published in The /tƐmz/ Review, Sonora Review, and the Read Water (Locked Horn Press) and Far Villages (Black Lawrence Press) anthologies.

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