Honorée Fanonne Jeffers is an American poet and novelist, and a professor of English at the University of Oklahoma. Her five poetry collections include The Age of Phillis, a 2020 book that reexamines the life of Phillis Wheatley through years of archival research; it was longlisted for the National Book Award for Poetry and won the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work in Poetry in 2021. Her debut novel, The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois, was published by HarperCollins in 2021. Jeffers was born in 1967.
