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Shayla Lawson is an American poet and writer, currently the writer in residence at Amherst College.




Biography


Lawson grew up in Kentucky and entered the slam poetry scene there before majoring in Architecture at the University of Kentucky, where they gave the 2005 Breathitt Lecture, "My Ancestor Antenna: Hair and Its Relation to African-American Identity Across the Diaspora." After graduating, Lawson worked as an architect for some time before pursuing their MFA at Indiana University Bloomington, where they worked as the nonfiction editor of the Indiana Review and for the Graduate Mentoring Center. Lawson published their debut collection, A Speed Education in Human Being, in 2013, the chapbook Pantone, of which each poem was printed on its own card, in 2016, and the book I Think I'm Ready to See Frank Ocean in 2018. They received the 2017 Oregon Literary Fellowship and Honorable Mention in the 2017 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. Lawson succeeded Daniel Hall as the poet in residence at Amherst College beginning in the 2018-19 academic year.
In 2021, Shayla Lawson appeared on Storybound (podcast) reading two excerpts from their book This Is Major, with music by MAITA.




Awards and honors


2020 National Book Critics Circle Award (autobiography), finalist for This Is Major: Notes on Diana Ross, Dark Girls, and Being Dope




Publications


A Speed Education in Human Being, Sawyer House, 2013.
Pantone, Miel, 2016.
I Think I'm Ready to See Frank Ocean, Saturnalia Books, 2018.
This is Major: Notes on Diana Ross, Dark Girls, and Being Dope, Harper Perennial, 2020.
How to live free in a dangerous world: a decolonial memoir, Tiny Reparation Books, 2024




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References

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Dyanna Lauren
• Shayla Lawson
• Lawson (name)
• Storybound
• Mr. Robot
• 33rd Lambda Literary Awards
• National Book Critics Circle Award for Memoir and Autobiography
• Holocene (Portland, Oregon)
• Georgina Lawton
• Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Literature
• Anita Somani

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The website of poet, performance artist, and public intellectual, Shayla Lawson.

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Poet, performance artist, and public intellectual, Shayla Lawson is the author of books, scripts, and all sorts of media. Their work has been recognized by the National Book Critics’ Circle Awards, the LAMBDA Literary Awards, MacDowell Artists Colony, and Yaddo.

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Shayla Lawson is the author of A SPEED EDUCATION IN HUMAN BEING, PANTONE, I THINK I’M READY TO SEE FRANK OCEAN, THIS IS MAJOR: NOTES ON DIANA ROSS, DARK GIRLS & BEING DOPE (Harper Perennial, 2020) and HOW TO LIVE FREE IN A DANGEROUS WORLD: A DECOLONIAL MEMOIR (Tiny Reparations, 2024).

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"In this vibrant first collection, Shayla Lawson skillfully defines being human(e) as giving thanks to the nuclear and extended family and making a sincere effort to understand/honor/be closer to those things that are greater than ourselves.

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This is what Shayla Lawson writes. I Tried to Be Twitter-Famous: Despite how much I failed, I was convinced I needed to be if I ever wanted to make my mark on the literary world; an excerpt from This Is Major for Vulture.

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NPR/OPB: Oceanography: Poet Shayla Lawson On Frank Ocean. Chicago Review of Books: The Rihanna of Poetry on Frank Ocean and Enjambment. Connotation Press: Shayla Lawson Interview, with Julie Brooks Barbour

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Trained as an architect, Lawson is an artist who works across mediums and has a keen eye for design. The chapbook is slick and glamorous. A limited edition run of it came with a perfume Lawson created in collaboration with Age of Earth Collective.

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