Chet'la Sebree
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Chet'la Sebree

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Chet'la Sebree is the author of the poetry collections BLUE OPENING, longlisted for PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry; FIELD STUDY, winner of the 2020 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets; and MISTRESS, nominated for an NAACP Image Award and winner of the 2018 New Issues Poetry Prize. Her debut essay collection TURN (W)HERE: A GEOGRAPHY OF HOME will be published by The Dial Press in May 2026. Sebree has received fellowships from the Delaware Division of the Arts, the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Hedgebrook, MacDowell, and Yaddo, among others. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Guernica, The New Republic, Ploughshares and The Yale Review, among other journals. It has also been anthologized in Dr. Ibram X. Kendi & Dr. Keisha N. Blain’s FOUR HUNDRED SOULS: A COMMUNITY HISTORY OF AFRICAN AMERICA,1619-2019; Kwame Alexander’s THIS IS THE HONEY: AN ANTHOLOGY OF CONTEMPORARY BLACK POETRY; and PICTURING BLACK HISTORY: PHOTOGRAPHS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD. She's an assistant professor at the George Washington University.
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