Last Name
Omni
Full Name
Vince Omni
Bio
Vince is a McKnight Doctoral Fellow (Creative Writing). He holds an M.F.A. from the University of Kansas, where he worked in the History of Black Writing (HBW) research center. He is winner of the 2024 Jesmyn Ward Fiction Prize (Michigan Quarterly Review) and the Margaret Walker Memorial Prize in Fiction (College Language Association). He is a Hurston/Wright Fellow, a Kimbilio Fellow, Longleaf Scholar, and co-founder of SoulClap: A Black Joy Journal. His short story “Mine Own” will appear in Virgin Islands Noir (Akashic, 2025).
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Area
Fiction and Nonfiction