Shayla Lawz

Bio

Shayla Lawz is a writer and interdisciplinary artist from Jersey City, NJ. She works at the intersection of text, sound, and performance and has received fellowships from the Hurston/Wright Foundation, Cave Canem, Jack Jones Literary Arts, The Center for African American Poetry and Poetics (CAAPP), and The Digital Studies Center at Rutgers-Camden (DiSC). Her writing and hybrid/sound work appears in McSweeney’s Quarterly, Catapult, and The Poetry Project, among others. Her debut poetry collection speculation, n. was chosen by Ilya Kaminsky for the 2020 Autumn House Poetry Prize and is out now. She lives in Brooklyn, NY where she teaches in the department of Humanities and Media Studies at Pratt Institute.