Evie Shockley

Rutgers University and Poet

Evie Shockley is an Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University and accomplished poet. The author of several collections of poetry, including a half-red sea (2006) and the new black (2011), she is also the author of the critical volume Renegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in African American Poetry (2011). Her honors include the Holmes National Poetry Prize and fellowships from Cave Canem, the Millay Colony for the Arts, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture of the New York Public Library. She was coeditor of the journal jubilat from 2004 to 2007.