S. Erin Batiste is an interdisciplinary poet and artist. Author of the chapbook, Glory to All Fleeting Things, her poetry has been published and anthologized internationally in wildness, Interim, and New Letters as the 2023 Winner of the Patricia Cleary Miller Award for Poetry. She is a 2024 Artistic Practitioner Fellow at Brown University's Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America, 2024 Loghaven Writer in Residence, and recipient of a 2024 San Francisco Center for the Book Mentorship Award. Additionally, she has received fellowships and generous support from New York Foundation for the Arts, Cave Canem, Kolaj Institute, MASS MoCA and Assets for Artists, Salzburg Summer Academy, PEN America, The Poetry Project, Poets & Writers, and Bread Loaf Writers' Conference among other honors. She is currently working on her debut poetry collection, Hoard.
Batiste runs Revival Archival Cards, Collage & Salvage (RACCS) — a mobile arts studio in Brooklyn. Her collages have appeared in Create! Magazine, Michigan Quarterly Review, Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora, Southern Cultures, and The BOOOOOOOM Care Art & Photo Book. She has exhibited at LA Zine Fest, Black Zine Fair NYC, and the Center for Afrofuturist Studies Ordinary Survival Inaugural Film Festival. Batiste's practice is rooted in accumulation and maximalism, and she is influenced by beauty, otherworlds, migration, divination and astrology, Americana, archives, and what remains. Her work centers Black women—and examines themes of freedom, the complexity of memory, what we consider history, and the ways we all inherit and collect possessions and stories.
