was born and raised in Michigan. He is the author of Sky Tongued Back with Light (forthcoming 2026), winner of the Black Lawrence Chapbook Competition. Recognized with the Patricia Cleary Miller Award and the Hopwood Award for Poetry, Sébastien has been a finalist for the National Poetry Series, the Levis Book Prize, and the Black Warrior Review Contest. His poems have appeared in or are forthcoming from Narrative Magazine, Pleiades, Bennington Review, Black Warrior Review, The Greensboro Review, Southeast Review, the minnesota review, Four Way Review, Post Road Magazine, and Cream City Review, among others. He holds an MFA from the University of Virginia, where he was a Poe/Faulkner Fellow in Poetry. In 2024, he was longlisted for the Gregory Djanikian Scholars in Poetry by The Adroit Journal, where he currently serves as a reader. He lives in New York City.