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Jaki Shelton Green

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Jaki Shelton Green
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Jaki Shelton Green is a writer, poet and North Carolina native. The Academy of American Poets named Green as one of their first ever Laureate Fellows in 2019 and she is the first African American and third woman to be appointed as the North Carolina Poet Laureate in 2018. She was inducted into the state’s Literary Hall of Fame in 2014. She is the author of eight collections of poetry and poetry work has been published in over eighty national and international anthologies.
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North Carolina
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Jaki Shelton Green