Lolita Stewart-White

Miami, Florida

Poet, playwright, screenwriter, and educator Lolita Stewart-White lives and works in Miami. Her full-length plays have been developed at City Theatre Miami’s Homegrown Playwriting Development Program and the Miami Light Project. Stewart-White has received commissions from the Coconut Grove Theater Festival, Miami 1 Acts, and City Theatre Miami. She is the author of black frag/ments, winner of Hub City Press’s Poetry Readers Series Prize, selected by Alabama Poet Laureate Ashley M. Jones. Stewart-White’s art pushes black poetic expressiveness. She experiments with genre and form and utilizes linguistic economy to manipulate words on the page as a form of resistance. Her poems have appeared in the African American Review, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, Beloit Poetry Journal, and the NAACP award-winning anthology, “This is the Honey,” (Little, Brown/Hatchette, 2024) edited by New York Times bestselling author, Kwame Alexander. Stewart-White’s honors include O’Neill National Playwriting Center semifinalist, Paris American Reader Series winner, and the Boston Review’s Poetry Contest finalist, selected by Sonia Sanchez. Stewart-White also received fellowships from the Atlantic Center for the Arts, Sundance Institute Miami Screenwriter’s Intensive, Cave Canem Poetry Retreat.