Shayla Lawson

Shayla Lawson is the author of This is Major, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics’ Circle and the LAMBDA Literary Award, and two poetry collections. Lawson has written for New York Magazine, Salon, ESPN, and Paper, and earned fellowships from Yaddo and the MacDowell Artist Colony. They reside in Lexington, Kentucky. They’ve “lived” everywhere.

Blackness Beyond America: Shayla Lawson on Global Conceptions of Black Identity

“We don’t just need the summary version of the diasporic experience, we need every story.”

February 26, 2024 By Shayla Lawson

To Poets of Color Whose Work Has Been Called ‘Healing’

Shayla Lawson: It Is Not Your Job to Fix White People

July 1, 2020 By Shayla Lawson

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