Faylita Hicks

FAYLITA HICKS (she/they) is a queer Afro-Latinx activist, writer, and interdisciplinary artist. They are the author of HoodWitch (Acre Books, 2019), a finalist for the 2020 Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Poetry and serves as the 2021 Poet-in-Residence with Civil Rights Corps. They have been awarded fellowships and residencies from Broadway Advocacy Coalition, The Dots Between, Jack Jones Literary Arts, Lambda Literary, Tin House, and the Right of Return USA. Their work is featured or forthcoming in American Poetry Review, the Cincinnati Review, Ecotone, Longreads, Poetry Magazine, Slate, Texas Observer, Yale Review, and others. Visit their website at www.FaylitaHicks.com. @FaylitaHicks