Shakeema Smalls is from Georgetown, South Carolina. Her work has been published in a variety of outlets including Honey Literary, Hayden’s Ferry, Emergent Literary, Tidal Basin Review, Root Work Journal, Radius Lit, Free Black Space, Vinyl Poetry and Prose, Rigorous, and A Gathering of the Tribes Magazine, among others. She is a Tin House Workshop and VONA alum. She was a 2022 PEN Emerging Voices Fellow and a Brooklyn Poets Summer 2023 Fellow. She has upcoming work in The Ocean State Review and Foglifter Journal.
fruitjournal.co.uk 