Steffan Triplett

Steffan Triplett is a poet and essayist from Joplin, Missouri. His essays have appeared in Electric Literature, Longreads, Literary Hub, Vulture, and Iowa Review. Steffan’s work has been anthologized in Nepantla: An AnthologyDedicated to Queer Poets of Color (Nightboat, 2018), Revisiting the Elegy in the Black Lives Matter Era (Routledge, 2019), and Sweeter Voices Still: An LGBTQ Anthology from Middle America (Belt Publishing, 2021). Steffan has been a fellow for Callaloo and Lambda Literary and is a VONA/Voices alumnus. He currently teaches at the University of Pittsburgh where he is the interim Assistant Director for the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics.