Chet’la Sebree

Chet’la Sebree earned an MFA in creative writing with a focus on poetry from American University. She is the author of three poetry collections: Blue Opening (Tin House, 2025); Field Study (FSG Originals, 2021), selected by Rick Barot, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, and Honorée Fanonne Jeffers to receive the James Laughlin Award; and Mistress (New Issues Poetry and Prose, 2019), selected by Cathy Park Hong as the winner of the 2018 New Issues Poetry Prize and nominated for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work–Poetry. 

Sebree has served as the director of the Stadler Center for Poetry and Literary Arts and as an assistant professor at Bucknell University. She is currently an assistant professor of English at George Washington University and teaches in the low-residency MFA program at Randolph College.