Nicole Sealey, born in St. Thomas and raised in Apopka, Florida, is the author of The Animal After Whom Other Animals Are Named, winner of the 2015 Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize, and Ordinary Beast (Ecco, 2017). She holds an MLA in Africana Studies from the University of South Florida and an MFA in creative writing from New York University. Sealey is the programs director at Cave Canem Foundation.
Photograph by Rachel Eliza Griffiths.
WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:
- Hysterical Strength, poetry, in Poems of the Week: 2016–2017