Bio

Angelique is a Chicago native poet, who received her B.A. in English (concentration in Creative Writing) from the University of Illinois at Chicago.

She is Poetry Editor at The Night Heron Barks and Ran Off with the Star Bassoon, and Contributing Editor at Cave Wall, a literary journal of poetry and art.  

Born to a dope ass teen mom-word nerd-punk rock singer in the early 80's, she was raised on the Southside of Chicago, at the knee of farm folks from all over Louisiana who'd joined the military and moved North during the Great Migration to work in factories. Thus she grew up with a soul full of lyricism and an eye for detail. 

Zobitz’s debut full length collection Seraphim (CavanKerry Press) is forthcoming April 2024.

She is also the author of the chapbooks Burn Down Your House (Milk & Cake Press, 2021) and Love Letters to The Revolution (American Poetry Journal, 2020).

Her work has been a finalist for the Jake Adam York Prize, Philip Levine Prize, St. Lawrence Prize, The Berkshire Prize, Tupelo Prize, and Georgia Poetry Prize and multi-nominated for the Best of the Net, Best New Poets, and the Pushcart Prize.  Luna Luna Magazine named her one of '5 Poets of Color to watch in 2021' alongside Chen Chen and Amanda Gorman. 

Her poetry has been published widely and can be found in The Journal, VIDA Review, The Adirondack Review, Sugar House Review, Glass: A Journal of Poetry's Poet Resist Series, Poets Reading the News, anomalous press, Night Heron Barks, So to Speak: a feminist journal of language + art, SWWIM, Rise Up Review, Pretty Owl Poetry, Rogue Agent, Psaltery & Lyre, Negative Capability Press, Mortar Magazine, Obsidian: Literature & Arts of the African Diaspora, Yemassee, The Midwest Review, CONSTRUCTION Lit Mag, Monologging and many others. 

An admitted farmers market lurker, slow food lover, hip-hop head, trap and country music enthusiast, party planner, second generation word nerd and delightful contradiction, you'll always catch her with family, friends, books, poetry, coffee, rocking cowboy boots, protesting, volunteering on boards and committees, pondering the simple, the unique and the divine, and slinging poetry.