Sheila Black
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Sheila Black | |
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 Black at the 2017 Texas Book Festival | |
| Occupation | Poet, children's writer |
| Education | Barnard College (BA); University of Montana (MFA) |
| Notable works | Beauty is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability |
Sheila Black is an American poet and children's writer. Black is the author of five poetry collections. She was a U.S. co-winner of the Frost-Pellicer Frontera Prize in 2000 and received a Witter Bynner Fellowship in 2012.[1]
Black earned a BA from Barnard College and an MFA in poetry from the University of Montana.[2] Black taught part-time at New Mexico State University and worked as development director for the Colonias Development Council.[3]
Black has written about having X-linked hypophosphatemia (XLH), a genetic condition historically referred to as vitamin-D-resistant rickets.[4] In essays and interviews, she has discussed disability, embodiment, and disability poetics as subjects in her writing.[5][6]
Black co-edited Beauty is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability with Jennifer Bartlett and Michael Northen and co-founded Zoeglossia, a nonprofit organization for poets with disabilities.[7][8]
