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