Shayla Hawkins

N/A

Detroit, MI

E-mail:

imagoodpoet@yahoo.com

Author's Bio

"For every lie we're told by advertisers and politicians, we need one poem to balance it." ~ Jorie Graham

Publications and Prizes

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

Personal Favorites

What I'm Reading Now:

The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo

Circe by Madeline Miller

The Arabian Nights II by Hussain Haddawy, Translator

The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton

Favorite Books:

The Bible; Like Water for Chocolate; Wuthering Heights; Their Eyes Were Watching God; The Farming of Bones; Mama Day; Soulcatcher and Other Stories; Middle Passage; Pride and Prejudice; Medicus: A Novel of the Roman Empire; Of Love and Other Demons; Finding Nouf; Divine Inspiration: The Life of Jesus in World Poetry; Nectar From a Stone; Girl With a Pearl Earring; The Painted Girls; Pablo Neruda: Selected Poems

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

More Information

Listed as:

Poet

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Identifies as:

Christian

Fluent in:

French

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Last updated: Sep 28, 2018