S. Erin Batiste

S. Erin Batiste is an interdisciplinary poet and artist. She is a 2026 Corsicana Writer in Residence and a 2025-2028 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow in Literature. Additionally, she has received fellowships and generous support from Cave Canem, New York Foundation for the Arts, Brown University and the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America, Powerhouse Arts, PEN America, The Poetry Project, Poets & Writers, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and the Rona Jaffe Foundation, Kolaj Institute, Loghaven Artist Residency, The Studios at MASS MoCA and Assets for Artists, Salzburg Summer Academy, and San Francisco Center for the Book among other honors. Her poetry is published and anthologized internationally in wildness, Interim, and New Letters, and she is currently working on her debut poetry collection, Hoard. Her work centers Black women—and explores themes of freedom, the complexity of memory, what we consider history, and the ways we all inherit and collect possessions and stories.