Faylita Hicks is an award-winning writer and multidisciplinary artist based in Central Texas.

FAYLITA HICKS (she/they) is a queer Afro-Latinx activist, writer, and interdisciplinary artist born in California and raised in Central Texas, they use their intersectional experiences to advocate for the rights of BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ people.

Hicks are the former Editor-in-Chief of the Austin-based literary journal Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, a 2020-2022 Texas Touring Artist, and the author of HoodWitch (Acre Books, 2019), which was a finalist for the 2020 Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Poetry, the 2019 Balcones Poetry Prize, and the 2019 Julie Suk Award.

The winner of Palette Poetry’s 2020 Sappho Prize, they have been awarded fellowships and residencies from Tin House, Lambda Literary, The Dots Between, Jack Jones Literary Arts, Broadway Advocacy Coalition, and the Right of Return USA, the first fellowship designed exclusively for previously incarcerated artists.

Their work is anthologized in The Long Devotion: Poets Writing Motherhood and has been featured in Adroit, American Poetry Review, the Cincinnati Review, F(r)iction, HuffPost, Kenyon Review, Longreads, Palette Poetry, Poetry Magazine, The Rumpus,  Slate, Texas Monthly, Texas Observer, VIDA Review, and others.

Hicks received an MFA in Creative Writing from Sierra Nevada University and is currently at work on several writing and multidisciplinary projects. They are represented by literary agent Annie Hwang of Ayesha Pande Literary and Pande Lecture Management. For more information about inquires, please visit their contact page.

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