Faylita Hicks Member Member since 2012

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Chicago-based poet, memoirist, and interdisciplinary artist whose work moves across the page, the stage, the recording studio, and the gallery. Author of A Map of My Want (Haymarket Books, 2024; Midwest Book Award) and HoodWitch (Acre Books, 2019; Lambda Literary Award finalist), with the memoir-in-essays A Body of Wild Light forthcoming from Haymarket Books. Twenty years of practice spanning spoken word, seven albums, commissioned poems for national civic institutions, visual installation, and institutional leadership in the literary and music communities.

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Chicago, Illinois

Birthdate:

31 October (41 years old)

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