Evie Shockley
Evie Shockley - Evie Shockley was born and raised in Nashville, Tennessee. She is the author of
The Gorgon Goddess(Carolina Wren Press, 2001). Her poetry and fiction have
appeared in journals and anthologies, includingBlack Arts Quarterly, Blue Mesa
Review, Callaloo, Crab Orchard Review, The North American Review, Obsidian
III, Catch the Fire!: A Cross-Generational Anthology of Contemporary African-
American Poetry, and Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the
African Diaspora. Shockley is a graduate fellow of Cave Canem and was awarded
a residency at Hedgebrook Retreat for Women Writers in 2003.