Shyanne Figueroa Bennett

Shyanne Figueroa Bennett is a disabled Brooklyn poet, teaching artist, and editor with roots in Panama, Jamaica, and Puerto Rico. She is a recipient of a 2022 Fulbright Fellowship to Panama to support writing and researching her documentary poetry collection.  She earned her MFA in Writing from Columbia University, where she was a recipient of a Chair’s Fellowship and Creative Writing Teaching Fellowship. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in various journals, including Callaloo, The Rumpus, Green Mountains Review, The Acentos Review, TRIBES and PALARA. She is the contributing editor of the special section Black Panama: A People in Transit in Callaloo (February 2027). She has presented her work in numerous venues, including Poets House, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Public Library, and the Panama Canal Museum in Panama City, where her poetry is featured in a cross-disciplinary collaboration El Jardín de Mr. Brown with Tova Katzman. She is proud mentee and mentor alum of Girls Write Now.