DARREL ALEJANDRO HOLNES is an Afro-Panamanian American writer. His most recent play, Black Feminist Video Game, was produced by The Civilians for 59E59, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Center Theater Group, and other theaters and venues and won an inaugural Anthem Award. Holnes is the author of Migrant Psalms (Northwestern University Press, 2021) and Stepmotherland (Notre Dame Press, 2022). He is the recipient of the Andres Montoya Poetry Prize from Letras Latinas, Drinking Gourd Poetry Prize, C. P. Cavafy Poetry Prize from Poetry International, and a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in Creative Writing (Poetry).