Darryl Lorenzo Wellington Non-Member Joined 2012

writer and performance artist

Fiction Poetry Nonfiction

The 2021-2023 Poet Laureate of Santa Fe, NM, Darryl Lorenzo Wellington is a poet, playwright, and essayist. His writing has been collected in the anthologies MFA vs NYC (Faber & Faber, 2014) Santa Fe Noir (Akashic Books, 2020) and Going for Broke: Living on the Edge of the Worlds's Richest Country (Haymarket Books, 2023) His first chapbook, Life's Prisoners, received the 2017 Turtle Island Quarterly poetry prize. His most recent book is: Legible Walls: Poems for Santa Fe Murals (Stalking Horse Press, 2023) Darryl is also an actor/performance artist whose work includes a dramatic reenactment of the life and times of the great Black novelist Richard Wright. In art, like life, he loves playing with fire.

Location:

Santa Fe, NM

Birthdate:

22 October