can’t unsee

Evie Shockley is the author, most recently, of suddenly we (Wesleyan University Press, 2023), which was a finalist for the National Book Award. She has received the Shelley Memorial Award and the Lannan Literary Award in recognition of the body of her work. She teaches in Black literary and cultural studies, Black feminist thought, and contemporary poetry and poetics at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, where she is the Zora Neale Hurston Distinguished Professor of English.