Chet’la Sebree is the author of Field Study, winner of the 2020 James Laughlin Award, and Mistress, winner of the 2018 New Issues Prize and nominated for an NAACP Image Award. She has been awarded fellowships from the Delaware Division of the Arts, Hedgebrook, MacDowell, and Yaddo. She is the director of the Stadler Center for Poetry & Literary Arts and an assistant professor at Bucknell University.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet on her recently released collection, the connections between personal and historical violence, and how she received her calling.