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ALAFIA NICOLE SESSIONS is a Black poet, writer, and mother in Atlanta, working as an educator, actress, herbalist, and birthworker. Sessions is the recipient of awards and fellowships from Cave Canem, Yaddo, The Watering Hole, Sustainable Arts Foundation, Georgia Writers Association, and Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, and was selected by Evie Shockley as the winner of the Furious Flower Prize. Nominated for a Pushcart Prize and thrice nominated for Best New Poets, she also received the Howard Moss Residency for poetry. Nine Drops of Turpentine was selected as a finalist for the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize and the Jake Adam York Prize.
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