NICOLE SESSIONS

Alafia Nicole Sessions is a black poet and mother living in Atlanta. She currently works as an educator, actress, herbalist and reproductive justice advocate. Her poetry has been published or is forthcoming in Ploughshares, POETRY, Poem-A-Day, Beloit Poetry Journal, Obsidian, Cincinnati Review, Ecopoetry Anthology II, Southern Humanities Review, Indiana Review and elsewhere. Alafia is the recipient of awards and support from Sustainable Arts Foundation and Yaddo. She was selected by Evie Shockley as the winner of the 2023 Furious Flower Prize. A Watering Hole fellow, Alafia earned an MFA from Randolph College. She is twice nominated for Best New Poets, a semi-finalist for the 92Y Discovery Prize and a finalist for the Sewanee Poetry Contest.