Tanya Shirley is a Jamaican poet, Cave Canem Fellow, and the author of two poetry collections; She Who Sleeps with Bones  and The...

Nijla Mu'min  is an award-winning writer, performer, and filmmaker whose feature film Jinn premiered at the 2018 SXSW Film Festival and...

Camille T. Dungy is a celebrated author and professor whose honors include the Academy of American Poets Fellowship, a Guggenheim...

Alexis Pauline Gumbs is an award-winning author of nonfiction and poetry. Her most recent book Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life...

Lynne Thompson is the award-winning author of four collections of poetry and was the 4th Poet Laureate of Los Angeles. Lynne Thompson ...

Shirley May is the author of She Wrote Her Own Eulogy and a revered figure in the UK’s spoken word scene. Photographer: Nicole May...

Texas-born LaToya Watkins is the author of the short story collection Holler, Child , which was longlisted for a National Book Award....

Deborah D.E.E.P Mouton  is an award-winning author of Black Chameleon (Henry Holt, 2023) and Newsworthy (Bloomsday Literary, 2019), as...

Andrea "Vocab" Sanderson is a Poet Laureate Emeritus of San Antonio, TX, and the author of She Lives in Music (Flower Song Press, 2020) ....

Mecca Jamilah Sullivan is the award-winning author of Big Girl , Blue Talk and Love , and The Poetics of Difference: Queer Feminist Forms...

Linda Susan Jackson is the acclaimed author of Truth Be Told and What Yellow Sounds Like , a finalist for the National Poetry Series and...

Charla Lauriston is a comedian, writer, director, and educator known for People of Earth (TBS, 2016), Ghosted (FOX, 2017), and The Last...

Yona Harvey is an acclaimed poet and professor. Winner of the 2014 Kate Tufts Discovery Award, her poetry collections include Hemming the...

Tameka Cage Conley is an award-winning writer of fiction, poetry, plays, essays, and librettos. The opera for which she wrote the...

Arisa White is a Cave Canem fellow, Sarah Lawrence College alumna, an MFA graduate from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and the...

Sapphire is the award-winning author of Push , which was adapted into the Oscar-winning film Precious. Sapphire has received numerous...