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Kyla Marshell

Kyla Marshell is an alumna of Spelman College. She is the winner of the Edith A. Hambie Poetry Award, given at Spelman through the Academy of American Poets, and the Zora Neale Hurston-Langston Hughes Award, endowed by Alice Walker. She has been a resident at the Vermont Studio Center artists colony, and is a Cave Canem fellow. Her poetry and prose appear in Mythium, The November 3rd Club, and The Revivalist, among others. She lives in Brooklyn, and attends the MFA program in Creative Writing at Sarah Lawrence College.

Website: http://hellonmars.wordpress.com/

Living the HBCU Split: Heterosexuality & Feminism [ESSAY]

by Kyla Marshell October 14, 2010

When I entered Spelman College, an eighteen year-old little dollop of confusion and wonder, I was overloaded with a totally new life. The social and the academic both called to me in a way neither had in prior schooling. There were a million boys to choose from across the way, and many new sisterfriends to [...]

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