SAVANNAH BALMIR BOWEN

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ABOUT

Savannah Balmir Bowen is a Caribbean-American writer. She studied English and French at Howard University and earned an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Kentucky.

Savannah is a Kimbilio Fiction fellow, an Oxbelly Fiction Fellow, a Haitian Studies Association Emerging Scholar, and winner of the University of Kentucky’s 2024 Fiction Award. She is also the recipient of a 2024 Albers Foundation artist residency at Thread Senegal.

Savannah’s work has been published or is forthcoming in Callaloo, Blackbird, Kweli, Michigan Quarterly, PREE, The Seventh Wave, and Torch Magazine. Her short story “At the End of Every Apocalypse is a New Apocalypse,” published in Torch, was nominated for Best of the Net.

Savannah is co-founder of Writers Rest, a traveling community and retreat for Black Womxn writers. She is currently at work on a collection of short stories.

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PUBLICATIONS

“A Lovely Girl” in BarBar Magazine

“Running from Rain” in Michigan Quarterly Review

“You Have Made a Story for Yourself” in Blackbird Journal

“Bouyon” in PREE Magazine

“At the End of Every Apocalypse is a New Apocalypse“ in Torch Magazine (Best of the Net Nominee)

“Night Riding” in Pinch Journal (2024 Elizabeth Nunez Caribbean American Writer’s Prize, Longlist)

“The Misunderstanding” in Kweli Journal

“La-Pa-La” in The Seventh Wave Magazine (Editor’s Pick)

“How to Farm the Edge of Cliffs” in Castle in Our Skins

“The Retelling of Power” in New York Writer’s Coalition Black Writers Journal

“When I Create” in McSweeney’s Black Powerful

“In the Heart of Man” in SONKU Magazine

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