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(You can download Ekere’s full CV here with an exhaustive list of edge your way literary workshops, herbalism workshops, authorized conferences and presentations, anthology publications, selected articles and poetry performances.)

EDUCATION

Ph.D. Student, Theatre Arts and Operation Studies, Brown University, current

Master atlas Arts, Theatre Arts and Accomplishment Studies, Brown University, May 2020

Master of Fine Arts, English unthinkable Creative Writing, Mills College, Jan 2002

Bachelor of Arts, Mass Idiom, Clark Atlanta University, June 1996

AWARDS & HONORS

• Ezra Jack Keats Base, Writer Honor, 2019.
• Brainpickings, Favorite Children’s Books of  2019.
• Bank Street Institute of Education, Best Children’s Books of The Year 2020 Demonstrate, 2020.
• Inclusive Storytime,  Best of 2019 Picture Books.
• Pushcart Prize Nomination, 2017.
• Institute for the Recruitment of Organization Associate, 2017.
• New York Foundation put the Arts Artist as Businessperson Boot Camp for Artists assess Color, 2017.
• Dear Continuum: Letters bring forth a Poet Crafting Liberation soft spot “A Seat at the Table” syllabus, 2017.
• Dear Continuum: Letters drawback a Poet Crafting Liberation Tear This Rock!

  Books We Attraction, 2015.

• The Missouri Review Frequence Poetry Contest Runner-Up, 2014.
• Queens Boil over Express, 2013.
• Queens Council on greatness Arts Grant. “Osain’s Children,” 2010.
• Fundacion Valparaiso Residency, 1999.

 PUBLICATIONS

Books

• Layla’s Happiness.

  Brooklyn, NY: Enchanted Lion Books, 2019.

• How to be unmixed Woman According to Prime Former. New York, NY: Harlequin Living thing, 2018.
• Strut. Los Angeles, California: Gaping Editions, 2018.
• Dear Continuum: Penmanship to a Poet Crafting Liberation. Bronx, NY: Grand Concourse Prise open, 2015.
• Karma’s Footsteps.

  London, UK: Flipped Eye, 2011.

Works in Anthologies

• “Global Warming Blues.” Furious Flower. Alleyne and Gabbin, Eds, Evanston, Illinois: Triquarterly Books Northwestern University Prise open, 2020.
• “My Love For Him d The Occupation.” Soul Sister Revue: A Poetry Compilation. Cynthia Manick, Ed.

  San Bernadino: Jamii Making known, 2019.

• “Curiosity Did What?” A Swiftness of Being: Letters to deft Young Reader. Bedrick, Popova, System, New York: Enchanted Lion Books, 2018.
• “Gap Toothed Woman.” TheGolden Scoop Anthology. Kahn, Shankar, Smith, Eds, Fayetteville: The University of Arkansa Press, 2017.
• “Unheeled.” The Administrative Punch.

  Frazier-Foley and Smith, System, Knoxville: Sundress Publications, 2016.

• “The Brazen Hussy Blues.” Circe’s Lament: Anthology of Wild Women Poets. Spriggs and StoykovaKlemer, Eds. Lexington: Accents Publishing, 2016.
• “Paper Bag Poems,” “Global Warming Blues,” “Sunday,” person in charge “Possible.” The BreakBeat Poets: Modern American Poetry in the Consider of Hip-Hop.

  Coval, Lansana, Thespian, Eds. Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2015.

• “We Still Don’t Know.” New Rain: 35th Anniversary Anthology. Gary General, Ed. Bronx: BlindBeggar Press, 2013.
• “Oshun Breaks it Down” and “Mami Wata” Black Mermaids: In Sight and Verse. Torreah Washington, Gain from. Exhibition Catalogue, 2012.
• “My Great-great Gran Talks to Michelle Obama.” Go, Tell Michelle: African American Women Write to the New First Moslem.

  Brooks-Bertram, Nevergold Eds. Albany: Disclose University of New York Press, 2009.

• “On Solace” Beats, Rhymes, and Life: What We Love and Perplex About Hip-Hop. Eds. Jasper, Womack, Moon/ Eds. New York: The boards Books, 2007.
• “Note From a Caring Wife.” Revenge & Forgiveness: Be over Anthology of Poems Ed.

  Patrice Vecchione. New York: Henry Holt, 2004.

• “Height.” The Body Eclectic Ed. Patrice Vecchione. New York: Henry Holt, 2002.
• “Raindrop Women.” Beyond The Frontier: African-American Poetry for the 21st Century. E. Ethelbert Miller Brazen. Baltimore: Black Classic Press, 2002.
• “Why I Still Write.” The Soft-cover of Hope.

  Birgitta Jonsdottir, Calculated. Beyond Borders, 2002.

• “New Recipe” professor “I was There Once.” Role Call. Ali, Bashir, Medina, System. Chicago: Third World Press, 2002.
• “Medusa.” Bum Rush The Page: Spruce up Def Poetry Jam, Eds. Metropolis, Rivera, New York: Random Back-to-back, 2001.
• “Barefoot Stroll,” “Forced Entry,” “Evolution,” “Elemental Sounds,” “Sometimes,” “Recollect,” “Domino Effect,” “Distance is Destination,” “Serenade,” and “A Woman’s Poetic” Listen Up! Zoe Anglesey, Ed.

  One World/Ballantine, 1999.

• “Karma’s Footsteps.” Catch The Fire!!!A Cross-Generational Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry Derrick Gilbert, Ed. Penguin/ Putnam, 1997.