Hervé Comeau ( @ herve_ yves ) is the winner of the 2018 Juniper Prize for Poetry for his first book, Children of the Down-swing.

Herve Comeau Syracuse ( @ herve_ yves ) is the winner of the 2018 Juniper Prize for Poetry for his first book, Children of the Down-swing. A first generation immigrant from Haiti, a writer, activist, and lawyer, Comeau was a winner of the Leonard Brown Poetry Prize, a recipient of the Cornelia Carhart Ward fellowship, and a finalist for the Olive B OConnor Fellowship. A graduate of Syracuse Universitys prest igious MFA program, his poetry has appeared in Pif, his fiction in Hobart, and more.