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Sherese Francis
Sherese Francis (she/they) describes themselves as an AlkyMist of the I-Magination, finding expression through poetry, interdisciplinary arts (collage, book and paper arts, sound and performance art, text art), workshop facilitation, editing, and literary curation. Her(e) work takes inspiration from her(e) Afro-Caribbean heritage (Barbados and Dominica), and studies in Afrofuturism and Black Speculative Arts, mythology and etymology.
Some of their work has been published in Women’s Studies Quarterly, Furious Flower, Obsidian, Rootwork Journal, The Caribbean Writer, and African Voices. Additionally, Sherese has published four chapbooks: Lucy’s Bone Scrolls (Three Legged Elephant, 2017), Variations on Sett/ling Seed/ling (Harlequin Creature, 2018), Recycling a Why That Rules Over My Sacred Sight (DoubleCross Press, 2021) and Lady Liberty Smashing Stones (THRASH Press, 2022), and edited a poetry anthology/guided journal, Baby Suggs and a Purple Butterfly (Get Fresh Books, 2024).
Sherese has received the Vincent Cooper Literary Prize for her poem “SomNuh/Mbulist (Patois Possession)” from The Caribbean Writer, residencies from LMCC, Akademie Schloss Solitude and SeaSalted Honey in Senegal, and fellowships from Voodoonauts, Baldwin for the Arts and Anaphora Arts. In 2024, Sherese won Inverted Syntax’s Aggrey Book Prize for Poetry for PollyNation: A Seminary of Self, an experimental poetry collection inspired by her Afro-Caribbean-American heritage, which will be published in the Fall of 2026.
