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Contributors’ Bios
Contributors
Nadia Bongo writes poetry and fiction when she is not tutoring. Having grown up in Libreville (Gabon) and Neuilly sur Seine (France), she now lives in New York. In 2018, she was selected to attend a Cave Canem workshop. She is a Winter-Spring 2021 Brooklyn Poets fellow. Nadia’s work has appeared in Newtown Literary and the New York Public Library zine. Currently, Nadia enjoys the work of Rimbaud, Audre Lorde, and Ovid.
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Gloria J. Browne-Marshall is an author, activist and a playwright. Her recent poem “white privilege” was published in Esthetic Apostle Journal. Her first poem “Dreamers Americanus” was published in 1990 in Quarterly Black Review. She is an unabashed renaissance woman for social justice. Her produced plays include “My Juilliard”, “Killing Me Softly”, and “Jeanine.” Gloria’s nonfiction books include “Race, Law, and American Society: 1607 to Present” and “The Voting Rights War.”
Lucy Mwelu is a writer living in Kenya.
Sage Gallon: See The Gallery on page 22.
Sakari Happonen is a Finnish-born writer. His poetry has appeared in World Haiku Review and DRIP Zine. He lives in Kuopio, Finland.
Scott Ortega-Nanos is a bookseller, musician, and young father in Oakland, California. He runs the bookstore for the Oakland Public Library and is an editor for Uwazi Press.
Lolita Stewart-White is a poet, filmmaker and educator who lives and works in Miami. Her work has appeared in Callaloo, Kweli, Green Mountains Review and Beloit Poetry Journal. She has received fellowships from Cave Canem, The Atlantic Center for the Arts and the Sundance Screenwriter’s Lab.
Quincy Troupe: See page 34 in book review section.
Lora René Tucker is Brooklyn born and educated; now living in Sag Harbor, NY. Lora has had her poetry featured throughout the New York Metropolitan area since 1992, has over 30 years working for racial and social justice and teaches and facilitates antiracism and cultural empowerment seminars. As the “Therapeutic Poet,” she self-published her first book: Writes of Passage in 2010.
REEL SISTERS DEDICATES CIVIL BRAND SCREENING TO CLIFF FRAZIER
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You are cordially invited to join Neema Barnette & special guests for a screening of Civil Brand in memory of Cliff Frazier, cofounder of the Dwyer Cultural Center.
