About Avalon Hogans

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Avalon Hogans is a multidisciplinary writer, artist, curator, and researcher whose work explores Black history, identity, memory, and homemaking through poetry, visual art, performance, and archival practice. She holds a B.A. in English with a concentration in Creative Writing and a minor in African and African American Studies from Rice University. Avalon served as the 2022 Houston Youth Poet Laureate and was honored by Mayor Sylvester Turner with Avalon Hogans Day (November 17) for her contributions to Houston’s cultural community.

Her poetry has been published in The Rice Review and featured in the THIS WAY exhibition at the Freedmen’s Town Visitor Center. Her visual art has been exhibited at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston and Studio Kёr. Through fellowships including the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship, Carlson Undergraduate Summer Research Fellowship, and Rebirth in Action Fellowship at CAMH, Avalon has used creative research to explore Black preservation and collective memory.

In 2024, Avalon served as a Loewenstern Fellow with Azadi in Nairobi, Kenya, where she curated the Azadi Ethical Storytelling Project for the United Nations’ World Day Against Persons in Trafficking. She is the recipient of the Paul Otremba Award for Literary Citizenship and continues her research on creative Black preservation as a Wagoner Scholar in Cape Town, South Africa. Across her practice, Avalon is committed to reclaiming overlooked histories and imagining liberatory futures through art.