B. 1987
Brittany Rogers is a a dark-skinned Black women with long blond beaded braids. She is wearing an orange jumpsuit and is sitting in a white room in front of a shelve of plants.

Photo by Stephanie Hill Wood

Brittany Rogers (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist and educator whose primary mediums are poetry, essay, and collage. Her debut collection Good Dress was published in 2024 with Tin House Books. Her work has been published in The Hopkins Review, Scalawag, Poet Lore, Indiana Review, Four Way Review, Underbelly, Mississippi Review, Lambda Literary Review, and Oprah Daily. Rogers has been a fellow with VONA, The Watering Hole, Poetry Incubator, and Pink Door Writing Retreat. She was also a 2024 finalist for Detroit Narrative Agency’s Emerging Filmmaker Fellowship, a 2024 POWERHOUSE resident, and a 2024 WOMXNHOUSE Detroit artist. Rogers is editor in chief of Muzzle magazine and a cohost of VS podcast. She is a lifelong Detroit resident.

According to Rogers, audacity is the overarching concept that activates her creative process. As a Black queer femme, she is fascinated by the boldness and risk-taking that daily survival necessitates. As such, her explorations of audacity often lead to an interrogation of the connections between the audacity of Black women and pleasure, longing, autonomy, the erotic, adornment, coming-of-age, and matrilineage. As a whole, Rogers’s creative work pokes at notions of respectability, ownership, beauty, and obligation, and constantly subverts the heteronormative and patriarchal expectations placed upon Black femmes.