Chet’la Sebree

Instructor

Chet‘la Sebree is the author of the poetry collections Blue Opening; Field Study, winner of the 2020 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets; and Mistress, nominated for an NAACP Image Award. Her debut essay collection TURN (W)HERE: A Geography of Home is forthcoming in 2026. She has received fellowships from MacDowell and Yaddo and has been published in The Kenyon Review, The Yale Review and Lit Hub among other venues. Currently, she’s an assistant professor at the George Washington University and faculty in Randolph College’s Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing program.