Chet'la Sebree is the author of Field Study, winner of the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets, and Mistress, selected by Cathy Park Hong as the winner of the New Issues Poetry Prize and nominated for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work-Poetry. Her essays and poems have been anthologized in Ibram Kendi and Keisha Blain's Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019, Kwame Alexander's This is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets, and others. Sebree is an assistant professor of English at George Washington University.
This biography was last updated on 05/05/2026.
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