Nicole Sealey was born in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, and raised in Apopka, Florida. She received an MFA from New York University and an MLA in Africana studies from the University of South Florida. Sealey is the author of Ordinary Beast (Ecco Press, 2017), which was a finalist for the PEN Open Book and Hurston/Wright Legacy Awards. Her chapbook, The Animal After Whom Other Animals are Named (Northwestern University Press, 2016), was the winner of the 2016 Drinking Gourd Chapbook Prize. In 2019, Sealey was named a 2019–20 Hodder Fellow at Princeton University. She has received fellowships and awards from CantoMundo, the Cave Canem Foundation, the American Academy in Rome, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Elizabeth George Foundation, among others.Books by Nicole SealeyThe Ferguson Report: An Erasure (2023)Ordinary Beast (2017)The Animal After Whom Other Animals Are Named: Poems (Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize) (2016) ContributionsBest New Poets 2011: 50 Poems from Emerging WritersWrote the introduction to Passion by June JordanReel Verse: Poems About the Movies (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series) (2019)Also Referenced in the EpisodeRoss Gay’s A Small Needful FactRobin Coste Lewis’s talk on ErasureMatthew RohrerChase Berggrun’s RED“Between the Lines” by Arianna Boussard-Reifel zong by M NourbeSeTracy K Smith’s poem “Declaration”Chase Berggrun’s RedReginald Bett’s Nicole Sealey’s “Clue” and her CentoThe Mis of My Kin by Janet HolmesJohn MurilloLil Noz XCharity for this episode: Furious Flower

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