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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.

Content

Total articles 21

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  Innocence as a Trope, Legal Definition, and Dream

  By Faylita Hicks

  Sep. 14, 2022

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  Four Things No One Tells You About Being A Working Writer

  By Faylita Hicks

  Mar. 15, 2022

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  Don't Waste Your Time • Black Femme Collective

  By Faylita Hicks

  Aug. 23, 2021

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