Keno Evol

Keno Evol is a writer and arts organizer. He is the founder of the Black Table Arts cooperative, a pay what you can art co-op for black artists in Minnesota located in south Minneapolis. He is currently pursuing a degree in Ethnic Studies. He is editor of A Garden Of Black Joy: Global Poetry From The Edges of Liberation And Living. His work hones in on the literary arts and the black radical tradition as curriculum for the future. Evol has been published in Split This Rock, Radius Lit, and Vinyl.

Evol has received the 2022 Minnesota Campus Compact Presidents' Student Leadership Award from the Institute for Community Engagement and Scholarship, the Verve Grant, the Beyond the Pure fellowship, The Emerging Writers Grant, and The Spoken Word Immersion Fellowship for his work. His essays are available at MNArtists.com, through the Walker Art Center.