About Nailah
Nailah Mathews (they/them) is a Brooklyn-based nonbinary Black poet to whom books and Black lives matter. Their poetry has been featured in Lolwe, Hennepin Review, Lucky Jefferson, New Note, Rigorous, Hoxie Gorge Press, and the Black Lesbian Literary Collective among others. Their body of work is preoccupied with matrilineal trauma, queerness, uncanny Black girlhood, racial isolation, radical theology, and decolonization.
They are a 2022 Wild Seeds fellow, 2022 Periplus fellow, a 2023 Anaphora Arts resident, as well as an alum of the immersive program for LGBTQ+ novelists at GrubStreet. When not writing, they are either ankle deep in other people’s stories or wrangling Olive and Martini, their two very bad cats.