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Faylita Hicks
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Freelance Writer, Freelance
Chicago, San Marcos
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Biography
Faylita Hicks (she/her/they) is a writer and justice-impacted organizer specializing in criminal justice reform in rural communities and the cultural impact of trauma on queer black people. They are the author of the poetry collection, HoodWitch (Acre Books, 2019), and the Managing Editor of Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review. They hold an MFA in Creative Writing from Sierra Nevada College and were awarded fellowships from Lambda Literary and Jack Jones Literary Arts. A finalist for the 2018 PEN America Writing for Justice Fellowship, they were also awarded grants from the San Marcos Arts Commission in 2017 and 2019. In December 2019, their incarceration story was featured in PBS’s Independent Lens Documentary Series. Their writing has been published or is forthcoming in Barrelhouse, The Cincinnati Review, Color Bloq, Huffington Post, Longreads, Poetry Magazine, Prairie Schooner, The Rumpus, Slate Magazine, and the Texas Observer among others.
I'm pretty much open and appreciate a good challenge. Will consider all pitches independently.
Content
By Faylita Hicks| Medium@ By TAVP Writer-in-Residence Faylita Hicks The face of the little nine-year-old girl I placed for adoption stares up at the rumble and glitter of Chicago's black sky, her hands grasping at the shutter of my camera, anxiously excited for the next great bombastic moment to arrive. Where we are on South Michigan Avenue, the normally quiet block is filled with screams and laughter, cloud and color. At the crossroads, someone has placed yet another box of fireworks.
By Faylita Hicks| Medium@ Four Things No One Tells You About Being A Working WriterIt’s a dog fight ya’ll. When I first set out on the journey to become a working writer, I had all kinds of plans. I made budgets and outlines, drafted articles and pitches, cleaned up essays and poems, and created deadlines for myself. I celebrated, dancing out underneath the stars, dreaming about all the things I could do with my time — now that I…
By Faylita Hicks| blackfemme.co@ Faylita Hicks@ FAYLITA HICKS (she/they) is a writer and activist defying the boundaries of genre & medium, race & gender, policy & people through dynamic storytelling. They are the author of HoodWitch (Acre Books, 2019), a finalist for the 2020 Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Poetry, a 2021 Shearing Fellow with Black Mountain Inst., and the Poet-in-Residence with Civil Rights Corps.
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Freelance
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