Sunday, September 7th
12pm CT – North Stage

Faylita Hicks (she/they) is a poet, Grammy-nominated recording artist, and spirit-led creative strategist. They are the author of A Map of My Want (Haymarket, 2024), winner of the 2025 Midwest Book Award, and HoodWitch (Acre, 2019), a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. Their debut memoir, A Body of Wild Light, is forthcoming in 2027.

Founder of The Craft Career Studio™, Hicks helps artists build intuitive, liberation-centered careers through ritual and strategy. A 2025 Haymarket Writing Freedom Fellow and board chair of The Guild Literary Complex, their choreopoem “Bar for Bar” is a 2025 finalist for Definition Theatre’s Amplify Series.