marion eames white

marion eames white, a light skinned Black person with collar-length locs and visible tattoos, in front of a white background.

Photo courtesy of the poet

marion eames white (they/them) is a Black, trans poet from New York. They are the winner of a 2024 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship. Their work has been published by the American Academy of Religion, Stone of Madness Press, UNICA, and more. white is an interdisciplinary artist and a scholar of religion, and their poetics combines translation theory with biblical genealogy to subvert hegemonic Western traditions and welcome Othered bodies into larger conversations of sacrality and belonging.

white earned a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and is an MFA candidate in the Programs in Writing at the University of California, Irvine, where they teach creative writing and co-run the MFA reading series, “Antics!”