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Evie Shockley is a poet, writer, and scholar. Her poetry, fiction, and book reviews have been published or are forthcoming in a variety of journals and anthologies, including Catch the Fire!: A Cross-Generational Anthology of Contemporary African-American Poetry (Derrick Gilbert, ed., Riverhead/Putnam, 1998), Crab Orchard Review, Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora, (Sheree Thomas, ed., Warner, 2000), Drumvoices Revue, The North American Review, and Obsidian III. A chapbook of her poetry, The Gorgon Goddess, will be published by Carolina Wren Press in 2001. Evie is a Cave Canem Fellow (1997-99) and has participated in the Squaw Valley Community of Writers Poetry Workshop. She is a member of the Carolina African American Writers Collective and a founding member of the Four Bean Stew poetry collective. Her formal education includes studies at Northwestern University (B.A.), University of Michigan (J.D.), and Duke University, where she is pursuing a Ph.D. in English literature. Currently, Evie teaches at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. |
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