Shakeema Smalls

is from Georgetown, South Carolina.  Her work has been published in a variety of outlets including Honey Literary, Hayden’s Ferry, Emergent Literary, Tidal Basin Review, Root Work Journal, Radius Lit, Free Black Space, Vinyl Poetry and Prose, Rigorous, and A Gathering of the Tribes Magazine, among others. She is a Tin House Workshop and VONA alum and was selected as a PEN America 2022 Emerging Voices Fellow.  She has upcoming work in The Ocean State Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Fruit Journal, and Foglifter. Shakeema is the winner of the inaugural Markus D. Manley Award and served as Poet-in-Residence at The Poetry Lab in 2024.

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