Chet'la Sebree is the author of Mistress (New Issues Poetry and Prose, 2019) selected by Cathy Park Hong as the winner of the 2018 New Issues Poetry Prize and nominated for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work-Poetry. Her second book of poems Field Study (FSG Originals, 2021) was selected by Rick Barot, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, and Honorée Fanonne Jeffers to receive the James Laughlin Award. She is the Director of the Stadler Center for Poetry and Literary Arts and an assistant professor at Bucknell University.