Shyanne Figueroa Bennett

Shyanne Figueroa Bennett is a Brooklyn poet and teaching artist with roots in Jamaica, Panama, and Puerto Rico. She is a recipient of a 2022 Fulbright Fellowship to Panama to support her creative work.  Her writing has been published in various journals and magazines, including Green Mountains Review, The Rumpus, Oversound, The Acentos Review, and TRIBES.  She has performed her poetry at various venues, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Center for Black Literature at Medgar Evers College, The Brooklyn Public Library, Poets House, and The Langston Hughes House. She is a proud mentee and mentor alum of Girls Write Now, a mentorship program for New York City high school girls and gender-expansive youth. She graduated with an MFA in Writing from Columbia University where she was awarded a Chair’s Fellowship and Creative Writing Teaching Fellowship