Aurielle Marie

Aurielle Marie (they/she) is a Black and Queer poet, author, memory worker, and somatic practitioner surviving state violence in the South. They are the author of Gumbo Ya Ya (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021), which won the 2020 Cave Canem poetry prize. Marie won the 2021 Furious Flower Poetry Prize, was the 2022 Georgia Author of the Year in poetry, and received the 2022 Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Poetry. For their work in prose, Aurielle was named a member of Out Magazine’s 2022 Out100 class and was featured on Good Morning America. In 2023, she was honored as a Kate Tufts Discovery Award finalist.

She was a 2019 Lambda Literary Writer-in-Residence, a 2022 Movement Journalism Fellow with Scalawag Magazine, and the 2024 Dartmouth College Robert Frost Writer-in-Residence. Aurielle has received invitations to various esteemed institutions, including Tin House, The Watering Hole, and Kopkind. Their work has been featured in American Poetry Review, the Poem-a-Day series, Poetry Magazine, on The Slowdown, Teen Vogue, and The Guardian, among other platforms.

Currently, Aurielle serves as a 2025 Art and Social Justice Fellow at Emory University. A genderqueer archivist and storyteller, she creates works that explore sex, systems, and The South from a Black Feminist lens.