User talk:Mrwrite1984

Rayon Lennon was born in rural Jamaica; he moved to New Haven County, Connecticut at 13. He has a B.A. in English with a concentration in Creative Writing from Southern Connecticut State University. He holds a master’s degree in Social Work. His work has been published widely in various literary magazines, including, The Main Street Rag, Stepaway Magazine, Folio, The African American Review, Noctua Review, The Connecticut Review, Callaloo and Rattle. His poems have won numerous poetry awards, including the Folio Poetry Contest for three consecutive years--2007, 2008, and 2009. He won the Noctua Review Poetry Contest in 2014 and 2015. He also won Rattle’s Poets Respond contest in 2015. He won Folio’s fiction contest in 2008; won the SCSU Fiction Contest in 2006 and 2007. He also won the CSU Connecticut Review Non-fiction Contest. His first book of poems, Barrel Children, was released in February, 2016, by Main Street Rag Publishing Company. Rayon is working to bridge social work and the arts. He intends to use creative writing as a therapeutic tool to help children channel their emotions. He is also working on a novel called Roam.