Stephon Lawrence

Managing Editor (Lost & Found)

Stephon Lawrence is the managing editor of Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative. She is a writer, and artist from Brooklyn, NY and a graduate of the MFA in Writing at Pratt Institute. Stephon is interested in otherworldly poetics and the creation and cultivation of emancipatory poetic spaces for felt sentiments that have been marginalized, displaced, or estranged from the dominant culture. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in Cosmonauts Avenue, Horseless Press, Queen Mob’s Teahouse, GlitterMOB, Fanzine & other places. Her microchap, //GERMZ, is available from Ghost City Press. And her chapbook, //EVIL TWIN, is available from Resolving Host. Stephon is a recipient of a Summer Workshop Scholarship at the Fine Arts Work Center and a finalist for The Poetry Project’s “Emerge-Surface-Be” Fellowship. u know how much i hate being alone in social situations//  (Futurepoem, 2023) is her first full-length collection of poetry.