Join us for an evening with Chet’la Sebree as part of Columbia’s Art + Life series, a program of intimate conversations with poets and writers organized by Columbia’s Undergraduate Creative Writing Program for majors and aficionados. Art + Life has hosted writers like Ladan Osman, Hernan Diaz, Phillip B. Williams, Bushra Rehman, Morgan Parker, Tommy Pico, Jenny Zhang, Eileen Myles, and many others, and provides an opportunity for students to ask the invited reader questions and to engage in roundtable discussions with the artist.
Sebree will be in conversation with Adjunct Assistant Professor in Creative Writing, Quincy Scott Jones.
Chet’la Sebree is the author of Blue Opening; Field Study, winner of the 2020 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets; and Mistress, which was nominated for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work-Poetry (2020). Her debut essay collection, turn (w)here: a geography of home, is forthcoming from The Dial Press in May 2026. For her work, Chet’la has received fellowships from Baldwin for the Arts, the DC Commission for the Arts & Humanities, 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. Chet'la's poetry and prose have appeared in Guernica, Lit Hub, The New Republic, Pleiades, Poetry International, and The Yale Review. Currently, Chet’la is an Assistant Professor of English at George Washington University and teaches in the MFA program at Randolph College.
