S. Erin Batiste is an interdisciplinary poet and artist. She is a 2025-2028 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow in Literature. Additionally, she has received fellowships and generous support from Cave Canem, New York Foundation for the Arts, Brown University, PEN America, The Poetry Project, Poets & Writers, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Kolaj Institute, MASS MoCA and Assets for Artists, Salzburg Summer Academy, and San Francisco Center for the Book among other honors. Her poetry has been published and anthologized internationally in wildness, Interim, and New Letters, and she is currently working on her debut poetry collection, Hoard.
Batiste runs Revival Archival Cards, Collage & Salvage — a mobile arts studio in Brooklyn. She has exhibited at LA Zine Fest, Black Zine Fair NYC, and the Center for Afrofuturist Studies Ordinary Survival Inaugural Film Festival. 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. Batiste says her 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.
