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Sean Frederick Forbes (born 17 January 1981) is an American poet and professor.

Life

He was born in Heidelberg, Germany to Hermes Delano Forbes and Teresa Mercedes Robinson. He has a sister, Rose Marie Forbes-Kharma, from his father’s previous marriage. After his parents’ divorce, he was raised by his mother, aunt, uncle, and maternal grandparents in Southside Jamaica, Queens. He identifies as Afro-Latino and connects to the Afro-Caribbean diaspora. His maternal and paternal grandparents and his mother were born in Isla de Providencia or Old Providence, a mountainous Caribbean island part of the Colombian department of the Archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina.

He graduated from Queens College, The City University of New York where he was an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. in English from the University of Connecticut.

His work has appeared in Crab Orchard Review, Long River Review, The Midwest Quarterly, and Sargasso: A Journal of Caribbean Literature, Language, and Culture. In 2009, he was awarded a Woodrow Wilson Mellon Mays University Fellows Travel and Research Grant to travel to the island of Providencia, Colombia, the birthplace of his paternal and maternal grandparents and his mother.

Forbes teaches at the University of Connecticut and currently serves as the Interim Director of the Creative Writing Program.

Works

Forbes, Sean Frederick. Providencia: A Book of Poems. New York: 2Leaf Press, 2013. Print