Dwayne Betts

writer, founder, YoungMenRead

Dwayne Betts is graduate student at Warren Wilson College, where he has been awarded the Holden Fellowship. Shortly after his release from prison, *The Washington Post* published a feature article about him and a book club he founded for at-risk young men called YoungMenRead. He teaches poetry at several public schools in the D.C. metro area, and has had his poetry published in many national literary journals, and contributed an essay to the anthology *It's All Love*.