by Zuggie Tate

Zuggie Tate’s work has appeared in Black Midwest Anthology, Wasteland Review, Exposed Bone Lit Mag, Shade Literary Arts, and Verum Literary Press. She is the recipient of Margie Hope’s 2023 Living Heritage Award for her advocacy and poetry addressing Trans issues. A fellow at Twelve Literary Arts, Assembly of the Arts, Lambda Literary, and The Watering Hole, she has also participated in workshops hosted by Torch Literary Arts, Flash in the Pan!, and Deathrattle Press. In 2023, she was voted Cleveland Scene’s No. 2 Poet and has performed at venues such as the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Public Theatre, and Heights Arts. She has also been invited to be a panelist at Literary Cleveland’s 2024 Inkubator Conference. In 2025, Zuggie was awarded the Cleveland Arts Prize’s Verge Fellowship and Literary Cleveland’s Amplify Fellowship. Additionally, she was a 2025 Lambda Literary Fellow for Poetry.