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Lamont Steptoe is a poet, photographer, journalist, and activist based in Philadelphia, PA. His most recent collection of poems, A Long Movie of Shadows, was just awarded a 2005 American Book Award.

Lamont is the founder/publisher of Whirlwind Press. He was a Combat Army Sergeant in Vietnam aws dog handler..He served with the 25th inf div at Chu Chi and was decorated with the Bronze Star. Among other awards and grants, Lamont has won:

* The 1999 Literary Fellow for the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts
* The 2002 Kuntu Writers Workshop Lifetime Achievement Award in Poetry from founders Rob Penny and August Wilson
* Discipline Winner in the Literature Category of the Pen Fellowship Program in Philadelphia
* Twice nominated for the Pushcart Award.