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Tara Betts has published poetry and prose in several anthologies. She is working on her MFA in Poetry at New England College. For more information about her work, visit www.tarabetts.net.
Marisol Díaz was born and raised in the Bronx, NY. Received a Bachelor’s in Liberal Arts degree (specialty in photography), City College CUNY, 2002; and an Associate degree in Advertising Arts/Computer Graphics, Bronx Community College, 1993.
LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs, is the author of three chapbooks which include Ichi-Ban and Ni-Ban (MOH Press), Manuel is destroying my bathroom (Belldonna Press) and the audio project entitled, Televisíon. LaTasha has received scholarships, residencies, and fellowships from Cave Canem, Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center, Naropa Institute, Caldera Arts, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She teaches at Medgar Evers College.
Mireille A.L. Djenno is a freelance writer based in Madison, Wisconsin.
A. Naomi Jackson is a writer of fiction and poetry who recently returned from a Fulbright fellowship in South Africa. She is Contributing and Online Editor for Chimurenga magazine.
Jacqueline Jones LaMon is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College, UCLA School of Law, Cave Canem, and Indiana University. Her first poetry collection, Gravity, U.S.A., received the Quercus Review Press Poetry Series 2005 Book Award. She teaches at Adelphi University.
Toni Asante Lightfoot is a graduate of Cave Canem Workshop for African American Poets and has been the artistic director for The Haven Bed & Breakfast in Trinidad, Blackout Arts Collective of Boston, and the Modern Urban Griots in Washington, DC. Lightfoot is the co-editor with Quraysh Ali Lansana of the Tia Chucha Press Anthology, Dream of a Word. Lightfoot is also working on a manuscript of poems based on the life of Jackie “Moms” Mabley.
Felicia Pride is the founder and editor of BackList (www.thebacklist.net) a website dedicated to keeping books in style.
John Rodriguez is working on a Ph.D. in English at the CUNY Graduate Center, a manuscript of poetry, and is teaching Bronx teenagers poetry. He has read his poems at various New York City venues and has been published in ONTHEBUS, Open City, The Underwood Review, Long Shot and the anthology Bum Rush the Page.
Dr. Clarissa West-White is a 2001 graduate of The Florida State University with a Ph.D. in English Education, and a former English/Language Arts middle/high school teacher. Currently, an Assistant Professor of English at Florida Memorial University in Miami, Florida, Clarissa teaches primarily Freshmen English courses. The author and her husband, Headley White Jr., reside in Pembroke Pines, Florida, along with their Pug Cocoa and are expecting a new addition to their family in December.
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