Mona Lisa Saloy
Louisiana Poet Laureate (2021-2023), Mona Lisa Saloy, PhD, is currently Conrad N. Hilton Endowed Professor of English at Dillard University. Her first book, Red Beans & Ricely Yours, won the T.S. Eliot Prize and the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Award. Her second, Second Line Home, celebrates New Orleans Black Creole culture. Her work has appeared in The Chicago Quarterly Review; Black Fire This Time; Tribes; and in Persimmon Journal. Her new collection, Black Creole Chronicles: Poems, was the One Book One New Orleans selection for 2024.
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The Poetry Buffet: An Anthology of New Orleans Poetry