Aurielle Marie
Recipient Information
Location
Atlanta, Georgia
Medium
Literary Arts
Year of Award
2027
Grant or Fellowship
Southern Artist Spotlight Grant
Grant Amount
$0
Award-winning poet, essayist, and cultural practitioner Aurielle Marie is the author of Gumbo Ya Ya (2021, University of Pittsburgh Press), which won the 2020 Cave Canem Poetry Prize and the 2022 Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Poetry. Gumbo Ya Ya was the finalist for the 2023 Kate Tufts Discovery Award and received starred reviews from Publisher's Weekly, Booklist, and the Library Journal. Marie has been published widely with essays and poems appearing in Teen Vogue, Poetry Magazine, Poem-a-Day, The Guardian, ESSENCE, Adroit, and on the US Poet Laureate podcast, the Slowdown. She has been featured as a political pundit or guest on many notable news broadcasts, including Good Morning American, The Jennifer Hudson Show, CNN’s Newsroom with Brooke Baldwin, Fox's Tammy Mac Show, and on NPR. Aurielle has received many awards for her political activism, including being named one of Creative Loafing Atlanta’s 20 People to Watch, receiving a University of Alabama McNair Fellowship, and was a fellow of Scalawag Magazine's Freedomways Reporting Residency. For her work in literature, she was named one of the 2022 Out100, the 2025 South Art Prize awardee for Literature, and the 2022 Georgia Author of the Year in Poetry.Her work has been covered by the Seattle Times, Scalawag Magazine Poets & Writers, NBC, Black Women Radical, and many more. Marie is currently working on a feature-length documentary, a novel, and an essay collection. They reside in Atlanta, Georgia with their wife Zoë and their scruffy dog, Baldwin
Artist Fee: $1,500 - $15,000
Availability: A significant amount of availability in this time frame, albeit with some varying travel and previously scheduled engagements.