You stayed late on the Friday and found her desk in the open plan office.

Her work has been featured in Palette Poetry , Southeast Review , Muzzle Magazine , Rhino Poetry, and

Winner of the 53rd New Millennium Award for Poetry and The Florida Review 2024   Editors' Award in Poetry Track One (Kick, Push III) featuring Lupe Fiasco Any body, everybody watchin’ us here—two Black kids

Return Home  (Counterpoint Press), a short story collection,  Kinds of Grace  (Flowersong Press), a poetry Her newest poetry collection VERSUS will be released by Texas Review Press in March 2027. received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts (prose), Kimbilio (fiction), CantoMundo (poetry

Her recent poetry has been published in Foothill Poetry Journal’s Fall 2023 issue. She will appear in ALLIUM: A Journal of Poetry and Prose in Spring 2024.

She has work published or forthcoming in The Rumpus, Prairie Schooner , the Indiana Review, Frontier Poetry Ajanaé is the winner of the Tinderbox Poetry Journal’s Editors Prize, a finalist for the Cave Canem Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady Chapbook Prize, and a finalist for the Brett Elizabeth Jenkins poetry

Brittany is a fellow of  VONA, The Watering Hole, Poetry Incubator, and Pink Door Writing Retreat, as A contemporary poetry class with a professor who didn't quite understand what contemporary meant.

She writes poetry highlighting the intersection of Afro-Caribbean and American identity, and mental health She is currently the Assistant Poetry Editor for Gigantic Sequins and previously served as the Editorial She's a Tin House fellow for fiction writing, and her poetry has appeared in Josephine Quarterly, Paper filling her shopping cart with too many flowers, running 5Ks with her dog, Mya, or at work on her first poetry

She was selected by Roger Reeves as a finalist for the 2024 Furious Flower Poetry Prize. Executive Editor of Nashville Review , Mayes is an MFA Candidate in Poetry at Vanderbilt University. still go on, writing lyric chicken scratch  over your chemistry notes, cleaning out Tattered Cover’s poetry How kind  of her to acknowledge the fissure of your  hands cracking the spines of poetry books

Her work, which includes poetry, essays, and short stories, explores themes such as the complexities

Jude and was named a finalist for Palette Poetry's 2023 Resistance and Resilience Prize.

A Pushcart Prize nominee and Collaborating Fellow at The Poetry Lab, she’s performed across the U.S. forthcoming with Plenitude , Fahmidan , Peach Fuzz , Lucky Jefferson , Just Femme and Dandy , Button Poetry