Aurielle Marie

Aurielle Marie is a Black, Atlanta-born, Queer poet, essayist, and social strategist. She was selected by Fatimah Asghar as the 2019 winner of the Ploughshares Emerging Writer Award, ]and was the 2019 Lambda Literary Writer-in-Residence. She’s received invitations to fellowships from Pink Door, Tin House, The Watering Hole, among others. Aurielle’s essays and poems have been featured in The Guardian, TriQuarterly, Adroit Journal, Teen Vogue, and more. Aurielle is the winner of the 2020 Cave Canem poetry prize. Her book, Gumbo Ya Ya, debuts this fall.