Faylita Hicks
About
Faylita Hicks (she/they) is the author of A Map of My Want (Haymarket Books, 2024), HoodWitch (Acre Books, 2019), a finalist for the 2020 Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Poetry, and a debut memoir-in-essays about their incarceration, A Body of Wild Light: The Fall and Rise of An American Poet (Haymarket Books, 2026). An Art for Justice Fund Grantee, Grammy-nominee, and the winner of the 2020 Sappho Poetry Award, Hicks is a voting member of the Recording Academy, Chair of the Board for The Guild Literary Complex, Core Faculty at Story Studio, and an Alumni Consultant at the Center for Art and Advocacy.
Photo credit: Carmendy L. Hicks-Tuggle.
