Shaina Phenix

Shaina Phenix is a Black, queer poet, essayist, and educator from Harlem, New York. She is the author of To Be Named Something Else (University of Arkansas Press, 2023), winner of the Miller Williams Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in West Branch, Glass Poetry, Foglifter Press, The Pinch Journal, Puerto del Sol, Frontier Poetry, and elsewhere.