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Faylita Hicks (pronouns: she/her/they) is a queer black writer, mobile photographer, and performance artist.

The author of HoodWitch (Acre Books, 2019), her poetry and essays have appeared in or are forthcoming in Slate, Huffington Post, Texas Observer, POETRY magazine, Color Bloq, The Rumpus, Foundry, Prairie Schooner, Kweli Journal, The Cincinnati Review, Tahoma Literary Review,The Austin American-Statesman, Glass Poetry Press, Lunch Ticket, Matador Review, and others.

She is the managing editor of Borderlands:Texas Poetry Review, an organizer with social justice group Mano Amiga, a 2019 Lambda Literary Writing Retreat Fellow for Emerging LGBTQ Voices, and a 2019 Jack Jones Literary Arts 鈥淐ulture, Too鈥� Gender/Sexuality Fellow. She served Faylita Hicks (pronouns: she/her/they) is a queer black writer, mobile photographer, and performance artist.

The author of HoodWitch (Acre Books, 2019), her poetry and essays have appeared in or are forthcoming in Slate, Huffington Post, Texas Observer, POETRY magazine, Color Bloq, The Rumpus, Foundry, Prairie Schooner, Kweli Journal, The Cincinnati Review, Tahoma Literary Review,The Austin American-Statesman, Glass Poetry Press, Lunch Ticket, Matador Review, and others.

She is the managing editor of Borderlands:Texas Poetry Review, an organizer with social justice group Mano Amiga, a 2019 Lambda Literary Writing Retreat Fellow for Emerging LGBTQ Voices, and a 2019 Jack Jones Literary Arts 鈥淐ulture, Too鈥� Gender/Sexuality Fellow. She served as a mentor for 2019 L.A. Review of Books Publishing Workshop and was a finalist for Palette Poetry鈥檚 2019 Spotlight Award, the 2018 PEN America Writing for Justice Fellowship, and the 2018 Cosmonauts Avenue Annual Poetry Prize. She received Catapult's Inaugural 2019 Black History Month Workshop Scholarship, participated in the 2018 Open Mouth Readings Retreat, and the 2018 Speakeasy Nonfiction Workshop. She was recognized and presented as a State Poet at the 2014 Austin International Poetry Festival. In June 2019, she released ONYX, her spoken word companion EP for her debut poetry collection.

The Founder/Creative Director of Arrondi Creative Productions, Hicks is an artist on the roster for hip-hop collective Grid Squid Entertainment. In 2017, she was awarded the San Marcos Arts Commission Grant for her monthly event series, SMTX Ripple Market, which provided performance and exhibit opportunities to women, POC, and those identified as LGBTQ-IA over the course of 36+ local and regional events.

The 2009 Grand Slam Champion of the Austin Poetry Slam, she was a member of the 2008 Neo Soul Poetry Slam Team and won several individual regional competitions. Her visual art has been exhibited in the Texas State University Gallery of the Common Experience, Insomnia Gallery in Houston, Dahlia鈥檚 Gallery in San Marcos, Patio Dolcetto in San Marcos, and featured in Five:2:One print magazine.

She received her MFA in creative writing from Sierra Nevada College鈥檚 low-residency program and lives in San Marcos, Texas. She is currently at work on a memoir. ...more

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“As a writer, a previously incarcerated person, and an activist, I acutely feel the weight of this carceral nation鈥檚 systems and structures on my own ability to feel and experience any degree of pleasure, especially when faced with the day-to-day dangers of being a person with marginalized identities. It is radical for me to care for myself as a whole and complex being in this country, which actively legislates against my right to do so.”
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