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Mya Matteo Alexice is a non-binary, Black and white graduate of the Rutgers-Newark MFA. A Cave Canem fellow and pseudo-librarian, they are the author of A Shape We’ve Yet to Name (Game Over Books, 2024). Their poems can be found in or are forthcoming in publications such as Pleiades, Black Warrior Review, Copper Nickel, Hayden’s Ferry Review, The Bennington Review, Barrelhouse, Honey Literary, The Pinch, Cherry Tree, underblong, and elsewhere. They’ve received fellowships from the Mellon Foundation, Fine Arts Work Center, and more. They were the runner-up in the 2023 Black Warrior Review Poetry Contest judged by Gary Soto. They enjoy video games where you can make the characters kiss.

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Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality

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The Greatest Taboo: Homosexuality in Black Communites

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