Meredith Nnoka (they/she) is a Chicago-based poet, teacher, and prison abolitionist. She is the author of Les Portes (Autumn House Press, 2026), selected by Cameron Awkward-Rich as the winner of the 2025 CAAPP Book Prize, and the chapbooks I Could Never Be Your Woman (2023) and A Hunger Called Music (2016). Meredith has a BA from Smith College and an MA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, both in Africana studies. She teaches poetry in carceral facilities and has received fellowships from Illinois Humanities, Lambda Literary, and the Prison + Neighborhood Arts/Education Project. Her poems have appeared in Diode Poetry Journal, Four Way Review, The Massachusetts Review, and elsewhere. https://meredithnnoka.com/
