Evie Shockley is the author of four collections of poetry -- most recently, the new black (Wesleyan 2011), winner of the 2012 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Poetry -- and a critical study, Renegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in African American Poetry (Iowa, 2011). A new poetry collection, semiautomatic, will be published by Wesleyan in 2017. Her other honors include the 2012 Holmes National Poetry Prize, the 2015 Stephen Henderson Award for Achievement in Poetry, and fellowships from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS). She serves as creative writing editor for Feminist Studies and is an Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University, New Brunswick.
