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# evie shockley
- URL: https://atelier.qxavier.com/living-inspirations/inspiration-evie-shockley/
- Published: 2026-10-06T11:52:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-06T11:52:00.000Z
- Description: zora neale hurston distinguished professor of english • rutgers university
- Author: quincéy xavier
- Tags: living inspirations, #Import 2026-10-16 06:39

*zora neale hurston distinguished professor of english • rutgers university*

a poet and literary scholar with six collections, among them *the new black*, *semiautomatic*, and *suddenly we*. she is the zora neale hurston distinguished professor of english at rutgers university.

bio from [rutgers university, department of english](https://english.rutgers.edu/people/faculty-profiles/profile/6497-shockley-evie.html?ref=atelier.qxavier.com)

### read

- [Rutgers Professor Named Pulitzer Prize Finalist](https://www.rutgers.edu/news/rutgers-professor-named-pulitzer-prize-finalist?ref=atelier.qxavier.com) — rutgers university news, 2018
- [History Lessons: Evie Shockley's "semiautomatic" and Ange Mlinko's "Distant Mandate"](https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/history-lessons-evie-shockleys-semiautomatic-and-ange-mlinkos-distant-mandate/?ref=atelier.qxavier.com) — los angeles review of books, 2019
- [Evie Shockley Searches for Humanity During These In-Between Times Through Her Poems](https://electricliterature.com/evie-shockley-poems-book-suddenly-we/?ref=atelier.qxavier.com) — electric literature, 2023
- [Evie Shockley on suddenly we: An Interview](https://poetshouse.org/evie-shockley-on-suddenly-we-an-interview/?ref=atelier.qxavier.com) — poets house, 2025
- [On Intuition, Innovation and Imagination: An Interview with Evie Shockley](https://fightandfiddle.com/2025/08/31/on-intuition-innovation-and-imagination-an-interview-with-evie-shockley/?ref=atelier.qxavier.com) — the fight & the fiddle, furious flower, 2025

### watch

- [Evie Shockley at the 2023 National Book Awards Finalist Reading](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pbg8Q0nYPxU&ref=atelier.qxavier.com) — national book foundation, 2023
- [Alison Saar & Evie Shockley: Conversation and Poetry Reading](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75OlGvmhhUo&ref=atelier.qxavier.com) — l.a. louver, 2018
- [Evie Shockley Reads](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Bp6hB4BTGE&ref=atelier.qxavier.com) — hammer museum, 2017
- [Arts@UNH Reading, featuring Evie Shockley](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLdb5IqStC8&ref=atelier.qxavier.com) — university of new haven, 2015
- [Evie Shockley: "american inferno"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFHTyomoD%5Fs&ref=atelier.qxavier.com) — adrian brinkerhoff poetry foundation

### hear

- [Evie Shockley on Ed Roberson](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/evie-shockley-on-ed-roberson-open-back-up-breadth-of-field/id1657024670?i=1000603902134&ref=atelier.qxavier.com) — close readings, 2023
- [Evie Shockley Reads Rita Dove](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/evie-shockley-reads-rita-dove/id784600888?i=1000631777224&ref=atelier.qxavier.com) — the new yorker: poetry, 2023
- [Evie Shockley (PennSound Podcast #77)](https://jacket2.org/podcasts/evie-shockley?ref=atelier.qxavier.com) — pennsound podcasts, jacket2, 2023
- [Our language is loaded (PoemTalk #200)](https://jacket2.org/podcasts/our-language-loaded-poemtalk-200?ref=atelier.qxavier.com) — poemtalk, 2024
- [anti-immigration](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/anti-immigration/id1110402018?i=1000458396052&ref=atelier.qxavier.com) — poetrynow, 2019