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Welcome to SWWIM Every Day’s preview coverage of Miami Book Fair (MBF) 2026! From November 2-13, watch our daily features on a selection of women and nonbinary poets appearing at MBF.

 
 

Ellie Black will appear at the Fair on November 22, 2026 - 12:00 pm- 1:00 pm, Building 8, Third Floor, Room 8303. For more information, visit miamibookfaironline.com, follow @miamibookfair on Instagram and X, and join the conversation with #miamibookfair2026.


ELLIE BLACK is a visiting assistant professor in English-creative writing at Hendrix College. She received both a Ph.D. in creative writing (emphasis in memoir/autotheory) and an MFA in poetry from the University of Mississippi. A 2026 Gregory Djanikian Scholar and a finalist for the 2025 Disquiet Prize in poetry, her work has been published in or is forthcoming from Best New Poets, Bennington Review, The Adroit Journal, The Common, The Drift, and elsewhere. Her debut collection, Revelator (American Poetry Review), received the 2026 APR/Honickman First Book Prize.


 

It's the stage of grief where [I become a ghost]

The Bribe