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Listed as:

Poet

Public address:

Detroit, MI

Michigan US

Email:

imagoodpoet@yahoo.com

Bio:

"My way is from woe to wonder." ~ Gwendolyn Brooks

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Favorite authors:

Emily Brontë, Laura Esquivel, Zora Neale Hurston, Charles Johnson, Gloria Naylor, Edwidge Danticat, Lucille Clifton, Ruth Downie, Zoë Ferraris, Gwendolyn Brooks, John Donne, and Pablo Neruda

Twitter/X:

twitter.com/shayla_hawkins

Prizes won:

The Caribbean Writer Canute A. Brodhurst Prize for Short Fiction; Winner: The John Edgar Wideman Microstory Contest; Archie D. and Bertha H. Walker Foundation Scholarship, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, Massachusetts

What I'm reading now:

Moloka'i by Alan Brennert

The Heretic Queen by Michelle Moran

Identifies as:

Christian