POET. CEREMONIAL ARTIST. CULTURAL ARCHITECT.

Witness The Work.

Faylita Hicks is a poet, interdisciplinary artist, and cultural architect whose practice synthesizes Hoodoo, quantum philosophy, and transformative justice into a singular creative and spiritual framework.

A MAP OF MY WANT

Faylita Hicks

Poetry

Haymarket Books, 2024

Winner of the 2025 Midwest Book Award for Poetry

Winner of the 2025 Chicago Writers Association’s Book of the Year Award for Poetry

Finalist for the 2024 Chicago Review of Books Award for Poetry

What a gift it is
to not live, always, in between here or there;
to not be overcome with the limitlessness
of need.
— from "Coasting"

Three Pathways Into The Practice

Beginning late May 2026, I'm opening three doors into the work — for the writers, artists, and visionaries ready to stop circling and start building.

The Invitation — A free hour. The first door. The Crossing — A four-week container. One threshold, crossed together. The Practice — A long-form one-on-one. Where the deep work lives.

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Most creative guidance treats the work and the spirit as two separate problems — and that separation is exactly where artists lose the thread.

With over twenty years of experience as a writer, interdisciplinary artist, ceremonialist, educator, and cultural architect, I bring the craft, the strategy, the ancestral wisdom, and the oracular vision into one practice. If you are a writer, a visionary, or an institution ready for guidance that can hold the full weight of what you are building, this is where we begin.

Rooted practice, lasting presence.