Rohan B. Preston was the recipient of a 1996 Illinois Arts Council artist fellowship and won the 1997 Henry Blakely, Jr., Poetry Prize, which was awarded by Gwendolyn Brooks in honor of her late husband's memory. He is the author of Dreams in Soy Sauce (Tia Chucha, 1992) and the co-editor of Soulfires: Young Black Men on Love and Violence (Penguin, 1996). A member of the Chicago-based Blue Ellipsis Collective, he has published his work in The Atlanta Review, Crab Orchard Review, Eyeball, and Hammers.