Meet a Poet: Kailah Figueroa

About the poet: Kailah Figueroa is a rhetorical engineer, memory archivist, and part-time prose stylist. Her work has appeared in Black Warrior Review, Callaloo Journal, The Cincinnati Review, The McNeese Review, Ploughshares, Poetry Northwest, and others. A Best New Poets and Pushcart Prize nominee, Figueroa has received support and fellowships from Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Cave Canem Foundation, Fine Arts Work Center, US-UK Fulbright Commission, and Vermont Studio Center. Born in New York City and raised in Towson, Maryland, she received her BA in Creative Writing and English: Publishing and Editing from Susquehanna University, and subsequently earned an MFA in Poetry from Rutgers University-Newark, where she taught Creative Writing to undergraduate students. Her manuscript, Before The Bull Dreams Me (Poetry, full-length), was selected as a finalist for the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics 2025 Book Prize. Her biggest dream is for her and all her friends to live on the same street. You can visit her on her website: kailahfigueroa.com

To view her poems in Russian and English, click here.

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