DeeSoul Carson (He/They) is a poet and educator from San Diego, CA. His work is featured or forthcoming in Voicemail Poems, Muzzle Magazine, Hayden’s Ferry Review, The Offing, & elsewhere. His chapbook, Running From Streetlights (2020), is a meditation on Blackness and being in America. A Stanford University alum, DeeSoul has received fellowships from The Watering Hole and New York University, where he is an MFA candidate in the Creative Writing program.

DeeSoul’s poetry springs from considerations of perseverance via storytelling, memory, and imagining. He is interested in the interrogation of laughter and joy as it pertains to Black existence, asking what keeps Black people laughing despite their struggles, who’s laughing with them, and who’s not quite in on the joke.