Jamaica Baldwin's first book will be published by YesYes Books in Spring of 2023 along with co-winners, Jill Mceldowney and Natalie Wee. Congratulations to all the finalists!

2020 YesYes Books Open Reading Period Selection

"Congratulations to Jamaica Baldwin, Winner of the 2021 RHINO Editors’ Prize for her poem, “Father Weaver.”" 

- RHINO Poetry

DATE: February 4, 2021  

CONTACT: Jamaica Baldwin 

Jamaica Baldwin Receives National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship 

Lincoln, Nebraska—Today, the National Endowment for the Arts announced that Jamaica Baldwin is one of 35 writers who will receive an FY…

Gaffney/Academy of American Poets Award.

Winner of the 2019 San Miguel de Allende Conference Contest in Poetry for "Teaching The Beasts to Devour My Mother."

Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Award for "Stitched" and "Symphonies" published in the Summer 2018 issue.