Suddenly We - Evie Shockley

EVIE SHOCKLEY, (Jersey City, NJ) poet and scholar, is the Zora Neale Hurston Professor of English at Rutgers University. A Lannan Literary Award-winner, she is the author of multiple books of poetry including a half-red sea ; the new black , which received the 2012 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Poetry; and semiautomatic , which was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2018.