Derrick Harriell resides, with his wife and son, in Oxford, MS and teaches in the English and African American Studies programs at the University of Mississippi. His first two collections of poems are Cotton (Aquarius Press­–Willow Books 2010), and Ropes (Aquarius Press–Willow Books 2013), winner of the 2014 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Poetry Book Award. His forthcoming collection, Stripper in Wonderland, will be published by LSU Press in spring 2017.