FAYLITA HICKS (she/they) is a writer and activist defying the boundaries of genre & medium, race & gender, policy & people through dynamic storytelling. They are the author of HoodWitch (Acre Books, 2019), a finalist for the 2020 Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Poetry, a 2021 Shearing Fellow with Black Mountain Inst., and the Poet-in-Residence with Civil Rights Corps. Their fellowships and residencies include Broadway Advocacy Coalition, Lambda Literary, Tin House, the Right of Return USA, and others. Their work is featured in American Poetry Review, Ecotone, Huffpost, Longreads, Poetry, Slate, Texas Observer, Yale Review, and others. #BadBxtchPoetry #CommunitiesNotCages #AbolitionNow