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 2025 Lawrence Prize for Fiction. 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 teaches English at a community college in North Texas, and she is currently at work on a collection of short stories.

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PUBLICATIONS

Review of Tao Leigh Goffe’s Dark Laboratory in Callaloo Journal

“A Lovely Girl” in BarBar Magazine

“Running from Rain” in Michigan Quarterly Review (Winner of the 2025 Lawrence Prize)

“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

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Conferences, Workshops, and Events

9/19/26 – Art, Memory, and Collective Care Interdisciplinary Workshop at the African American Art and Culture Complex, San Francisco

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