Chet'la Sebree

Chet'la Sebree (pronounced: SHAY-la SEE-bree) is an Assistant Professor of English at George Washington University. She is the author of Field Study (FSG Originals, June 2021), winner of the 2020 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American, and Mistress, selected by Cathy Park Hong as the winner of the 2018 New Issues Poetry Prize and nominated for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work-Poetry (2020). She is currently working on her debut essay collection about her relationship to home, heritage, and belonging through domestic and international travel. 

For her work, she has received fellowships and support from Baldwin for the Arts, the Delaware Division of the Arts, the Hawthornden Foundation, Hedgebrook, the Hermitage Artist Retreat, MacDowell, the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies, the Stadler Center for Poetry, the Vermont Studio Center, and Yaddo.