S. Erin Batiste is an interdisciplinary poet. She is 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, The Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America at Brown University, 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 widely in wildness, Interim, and New Letters, and she is currently working on her debut poetry collection, Hoard.
Batiste runs Revival Archival Cards, Collage & Salvage — a mobile arts studio in Brooklyn. Her collages appear in Create!, Michigan Quarterly Review, Obsidian, Southern Cultures, Vassar Review, and Women Studies Quarterly—and her art zine, Providence—reclaiming early 1900's Black archives from the New Orleans Public Library, is in its fourth handmade edition. She has exhibited internationally at Burnaway's Book//Zine Fair, Volume 8 MTL, LA Zine Fest, Black Zine Fair NYC, and the Center for Afrofuturist Studies Ordinary Survival Film Festival. Batiste says her practice is rooted in accumulation and maximalism, and she is influenced by beauty, otherworlds, waymaking and migration, divination and astrology, Americana, archives, and what remains. 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.
