IN THE WRITER'S STUDIO
IN THE WRITER'S STUDIO
Hear 2022 U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limon read Hicks’ poem “Bonfire Brides” on The Slowdown Podcast’s EPISODE 776.
PUBLICATIONS
2023
Poetry
Southern Cultures, Forthcoming 2023. “Letters to a Black Boy Buried in Texas.”
Split This Rock, February 2023. “After the George Floyd Protests, My Strange Dream.”
Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day Series, February 2023. “Self-Care.”
2021
Poetry
Northwest Review, July 2021. “A Map of my Want.”
Yale Review, June 2021. “ASMR Sleepcast: The Night After Being Released from the Rural County Jail.”
NONFICTION/ESSAY/MEMOIR/OP-ED
“Don’t Waste Your Time.” Black Femme Collective, ed. Nicole Shawan Junior, April 2020.
PRESENTATIONS
“A NEW NAME FOR MY LOVE,” Spoken Word Album, Independent Release, Civil Rights Corps, September 2021.
“BAR FOR BAR: AFTER PARTY,” Zoom Presentation at Fellowship Hall, Broadway Advocacy Coalition, May 2021.
2020.
2019
POETRY
Linden Avenue, December 2019. “Mama Dirt Mouth.”
Bone Bouquet, 2019. “My Father, The Lake.”
Cincinnati Review, 2019. “Photo of A Girl, 2004: Gawd.” miCRo Series, Winner of Best of Net, 2019
Foundry, 2019. “The Birth Mother’s Red Bath for Courage.”
Glass Poetry Press, 2019. “whoever.”
Homology Lit, 2019. Two Poems.
Pidgeonholes, 2019. Two Poems. Nominated for Best of Net, 2019.
Rockvale Review, 2019. Two Poems.
The Rumpus, 2019. Three Poems. Featured Poet.
Tahoma Literary, 2019. Two Poems. Nominated for Pushcart, 2019.
NONFICTION/ESSAY/MEMOIR/OP-ED
“Why A Small Offense Shouldn’t Have Life-Altering Consequences,” Texas Observer, ed. Sunny Sone, 2019.
“Road Trips in the Red: Freeing My Queer Black Self from the Responsibility of Being Acceptable,” Color Bloq, ed. Niq D. Johnson, PhD, 2019.
“The High Cost of Hays County’s Decision to Continue Prosecuting Low-Level Marijuana Cases,” Texas Observer, ed. Sunny Sone, 2019.
“Lost in Limbo in the Hays County Jail,” Texas Observer, ed. Sunny Sone, 2019.
“Why I Gave My Baby Up for Adoption—And Why It’s the Best Decision I’ve Ever Made,” Huffington Post, 2019.
EDITORIAL WORK
Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Issue 50 and Issue 51, Managing Editor Fall 2019, Editor-in-Chief 2020.
INTERVIEWS/REVIEWS
The Rumpus, “A Time and a Place: Talking with Faylita Hicks” by Saaret E. Yoseph, December 2019.
American Microreviews & Interviews, “Faylita Hicks in Conversation with Tom Simpson” by Tom Simpson, December 2019.
Electric Lit, “HOODWITCH Celebrates the Power of Black Femme Witchcraft” by Tyrese L. Coleman, December 2019.
Lone Star, “Lone Star Listens: Faylita Hicks” by Michelle Newby Lancaster,” December 2019.
Porter House Review, “The Poetics of Witchcraft: An Interview with Faylita Hicks” by Clayton Bradshaw, December 2019.
Austin PBS/Decibel Dialogue, “Talking With The Creators of ‘45 Days In A Texas Jail” Hosted by Judy Maggio, December 2019.
Texas Monthly, “Texas Authors Book Recommendations” December 2019.
Independent Lens Documentary/ITVS, “45 Days in a County Jail” Documentary
produced by Julianna Brannum, December 2019.
Two and Fro/Tiny Texas Podcast, “Live Show: Tiny Texas Podcast Festival” September 2019.
Poets and Writers, “My MFA Experience” by Kevin Larimer, September 2019.
2022
Poetry
American Poetry Review, Cover Feature, July 2022. Four Poems.
Torch Literary Arts, May 2022. Two Poems.
Scalawag, April 2022. “A Tale As Old As Time.”
underbelly, January 2022. “Kid’s Kingdom.”
2020
POETRY
Palette Poetry, October 2020. “I Tried Dating Again.” Selected by Victoria Chang as the winner of Palette Poetry’s 2020 Sappho Award.
VIDA Review, September 2020. “Dawg, What the Fuck Ima Do With a $20.”
American Poetry Review, July 2020. Two Poems.
F(r)iction, July 2020. Three Poems.
Poetry Magazine, June 2020. “Photo of a Girl, 1992: Gremlins.”
Frontier Poetry, May 2020. “ARCO.”
Redivider, May 2020. Two Poems.
Pidgeonholes, May 2020. Two Poems.
Foglifter, March 2020. Two Poems.
Poetry Daily, January 2020. “The Daughters of Samuel Little.”
Sundog Lit, February 2020. “#LoveMachine.”
Adroit, January 2020. “Steel Horses.”
NONFICTION/ESSAY/MEMOIR/OP-ED
“Flowers in a Field of Terror,” Ecotone, ed. Anna Lena Philips Bell, Summer 2020.
“On Books and Their Harbors: HoodWitch,” Kenyon Review, ed. Ruben Quesada (Kenyon College),
blog, September 2020.
“Afro Blue,” Poetry Magazine, ed. Holly Amos (Poetry Foundation), blog, June 2020.
“The Danger of Desire,” Longreads, ed. Sari Botton, April 2020.
“How to Become a Ghost,” Barrelhouse, ed. Tyrese Coleman, blog, February 2020.
INTERVIEWS/REVIEWS
NBC News, “25 Best LGBTQ Books of 2020, According to Lambda Literary.”
The Escapery, “Interview with The Escapery,” Podcast, October 2020.
Vice, “100 Years After Women’s Suffrage, US Voters Still Face Countless Barriers”
by Vanessa Taylor, August 2020.
25 for 25, “Interview with Faylita Hicks,” by Penina Beede, Podcast, September 2020.
Kenyon Review, “Divinity and Truth” conducted by Ruben Quesada, May 2020.
Southern Review of Books, “7 Southern Poets on Place” by Adam Morgan, February 2020.
2018
POETRY
POETRY Magazine, November 2018. “Tonight At The Street Hustler’s Circus: The Girls.”
American Poetry Journal, 2018. “Blackened Tilapia & Citrus.”
Cosmonauts Avenue, 2018. “wolf.”
Ink & Nebula, 2018. Two Poems.
Kweli Journal, 2018. Two Poems.
Lunch Ticket, 2018. “my sister-wife.”
Matador Review, 2018. Two Poems. Nominated for Best of Net, 2019.
Prairie Schooner, 2018. Two Poems.
NONFICTION/ESSAY/MEMOIR/OP-ED
“How I Went from Graduate School Student to Amazon Warehouse Janitor,” SLATE, 2018.
INTERVIEWS/REVIEWS
Poetry Foundation, “Faylita Hicks reads Featuring Tonight at the Street Hustler’s Circus: The Girls” Podcast, November 2018.