Evie Shockley (born in Nashville, Tennessee) is an American poet and scholar who earned a BA from Northwestern University, a JD from the University of Michigan, and a PhD in English from Duke University. Her collections include suddenly we (Wesleyan University Press, 2023), a National Book Award finalist and NAACP Image Award winner; semiautomatic (Wesleyan, 2017), a Pulitzer Prize finalist and Hurston/Wright Legacy Award winner; and the new black (Wesleyan, 2011), also a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award winner. A Cave Canem Fellow, she has received the Shelley Memorial Award, the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry, the Academy of American Poets Fellowship, and the Holmes National Poetry Prize. She is the Zora Neale Hurston Distinguished Professor of English at Rutgers University.