Award-winning poet, essayist, and Freedom Fighter Aurielle Marie is a child of the Deep South and an Atlanta native. She received her bachelor's in Social Justice Strategy and Hip-Hop Theory from the Evergreen State College and is an MFA candidate at the University of Alabama.

Aurielle’s poetry has been featured or is forthcoming in the TriQuarterly, Southeast Review, Black Warrior, BOAAT Journal, Sycamore Review, Adroit Journal, Vinyl Poetry, Palette Poetry, and Ploughshares. She's received invitations to fellowships from Lambda Literary, VONA Voices, and Tin House. Aurielle is a 2017 winner of the Blue Mesa Review poetry award and a Write Bloody Book prize. She’s the Lambda Literary 2019 Poetry Emerging Writer-in-Residence. She won the 2019 Ploughshares Emerging Writers Award for Poetry. As an essayist, Aurielle traverses subjects of justice, Blackness, bodies, sex, and pop culture in a timely and urgent voice that pulls from a Black feminist lens. She has bylines in The Guardian, Bitch Media, Allure Magazine, Essence, Wear Your Voice, NBC, and Teen Vogue.

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