Nakia Hill

We All Rise Prize

Nakia Hill is a writer, poet, journalist, and educator. She is the author of “Water Carrier,” a book of poetry, as well as “I Still Did It,” an intergenerational anthology on resilience, and the recently released anthology “How We Take Up Space,” which focuses on spatial justice. A proud native of Roxbury, Hill was named an artist-in-residence by the Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture in 2018 and became a GrubStreet Teaching Fellow in 2023. She has received multiple awards and honors for her leadership in education and writing. Hill is dedicated to empowering Black women and girls of color to use writing as a tool for healing and advocacy through the power of storytelling.