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, assistant professor of English at the 51��Ʒ��Ƶ, has won an from The 51��Ʒ��Ƶsburgh Foundation for her poetry anthology, “The Black Outside.” The Advancing Black Arts in 51��Ʒ��Ƶsburgh program was created and funded by The 51��Ʒ��Ƶsburgh Foundation to celebrate and grow the Black arts sector.

Priest received $50,000 to support her anthology, “The Black Outside,” which will focus on themes of Black ecology, the Great Migration, Black desire and Black addiction, as well as a collection of essays on Black surrealism and poetic craft. Priest, who joined 51��Ʒ��Ƶ in 2023, also serves as curator of community programs and praxis for the .

Priest’s poems and essays have appeared widely in publications such as The Atlantic, Boston Review, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Sewanee Review and ESPN. Her writing has also been featured in anthologies, including “The Breakbeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip Hop,” “That’s a Pretty Thing to Call It: Prose and Poetry by Artists Teaching in Carceral Institutions,” and “What Things Cost: An Anthology for the People.” Her work has been commissioned by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.