AKHIM YUSEFF CABÉY was born in the Bronx, NY. A Pushcart Prize-winning poet and essayist, he is also the winner of the 2024 Palette Poetry Rising Poet Prize and a 2025 Djanikian Scholar. He is both a six-time recipient of the Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award and a Greater Columbus Arts Council Artist Project Award. His writing has appeared in Colorado Review, RHINO, The Adroit Journal, The Florida Review, Indiana Review, Shenandoah, TriQuarterly, Callaloo, and elsewhere. He teaches and lives in Columbus, Ohio.