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Lolita Stewart-White is a poet and filmmaker who lives and works in Miami. Her poems have appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal, Green Mountains Review, Iowa Review, and African American Review. She has received fellowships from Cave Canem, Palm Beach Poetry Festival, and The Sundance Screenwriters Lab. She is the winner of the Paris-American Poetry Prize. Her films have been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art and Pan African-American Film and Arts Festival.
Selected by Sonia Sanchez as a finalist for the 2021 Boston Review Annual Poetry Contest
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