Jonny Teklit, a Black man with short, curly hair, and a goatee, is smiling directly at the camera. He is stood in front of a bush of dark green leaves. He is wearing purple glasses and a white shirt that says the phrase "Home Video.”

Jonny Teklit is an award-winning poet who has had work appear in The Academy of American Poets, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Adroit Journal, and elsewhere. He is currently a second-year MFA candidate at the University of Wisconsin–Madison where he is working on his debut collection. He has an animal fact for any occasion.