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Enzo Silon Surin is a Haitian-born poet, writer, playwright, speaker,
advocate and the author of Higher Ground (Finishing Line Press, 2006),
a collection of poems for urban uplift, which was nominated for the
Massachusetts Book Award. He is also the author of A Different Kind of Love,
an eBook of inspirational writing.

Surin's poem, Blues Prelude (Chicago), has been nominated for a
Pushcart Cart Prize. His poem, Events on Paper Smear, won the Boston
Mayor's 2010 Poetry and Prose Competition. His poems have also appeared
in Tidal Basin Review, Reverie: Midwest African American Literature, Freshwater,
The Caribbean Writer, Soundings East, among other literary journals.

Surin has been featured as a poet, keynote speaker, guest lecturer and
dramatist, addressing topics such as literacy, class, race, faith and urban uplift.
He currently lives in Massachusetts, where he founded and heads the literacy
initiative INKp.a.l.s, a project aimed at using poetry as a tool to increase
literacy and affect social change. He also co-founded and serves as editor
of The Bunker Hill Bridge: a literary journal of Bunker Hill Community College.

Surin is currently pursuing a Master of Fine Arts degree at Lesley University
and is an instructor at Bunker Hill Community College and in the PEN New
England Prison Writing Program