The 2024 Center for African American Poetry and Poetics (CAAPP) Book Prize awarded to Jasmine Reid for her manuscript, “Interlocutor Goddess.”  

Reid is also the author of “Deus Ex Nigrum” (2020) and a recipient of Cave Canem and Poets House fellowships. She has been published in the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, Kenyon Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and TriQuarterly. Reid is currently an assistant professor at the Pratt Institute in New York City.

The CAAPP Book Prize was founded in 2020 and is a publishing partnership between the Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences Center for African American Poetry and Poetics and Autumn House Press. The goal of the prize is to publish and promote a writer of African descent and it is awarded annually to a first or second book by a writer.

The submitted manuscripts should embody the African American, African, or African diasporic experiences and can be of any genre so long as it intersects with poetry. Autumn House Press will publish the winner of the CAAPP Book Prize in 2025 and the author will be awarded $3,000.

A full list of the 2024 finalists can be found here.