biography
photo: iman ādam
Kailah Figueroa is a rhetorical engineer, memory archivist, and part-time prose stylist. Her poetry is forthcoming/published in wildness, Poetry Northwest, Black
Warrior Review, Torch Literary Arts, Pigeon Pages, The Cincinnati Review, and Ploughshares. A Pushcart Prize and Best New Poets nominee, Figueroa has recieved support and fellowships from the Fulbright Commission, Vermont Studio Center, Fine Arts Work Center, Cave Canem, and Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference. Her work is researched-based and transposes the residue of human connections into lyric and metaphor to
create a dreamscape of Blackness, queerness, and womanness that’s not solely a track record of the violence. She loves fresh flowers, karaoke, Ethel Cain, and Alice Coltrane. Her biggest dream is for her and all her friends to live on the same street. She holds an MFA in Poetry from Rutgers University-Newark.