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ABOUT THE ARTISTS Deborah J. Hunter, Tulsa poet, writer, teaching artist, workshop facilitator, and social justice activist, received a Greenwood Art Project grant to produce her original play, Porches, set in Tulsa’s Greenwood District in the decades following the massacre. She received a Woman of the Year Pinnacle Award in 2018, Jingle Feldman Artist Award in 2000, and was a 2013 Oklahoma Poet Laureate finalist. Gay Pasley is a social justice nurse, writer, and photographer living in Oklahoma. “I am black. I am female and I am an immigrant. It is this sense of displacement in the diaspora and desire to magnify my witness that drives my art.”
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Cameron Brewer is an activist, poet, comedian, and writer originally from Oklahoma. For nearly a decade, Cameron has been writing and performing poetry addressing themes of race, pop culture, and American trauma. He currently lives in Maine where he is continuing the work of promoting art and activism. Clemonce Heard is the winner of the 2020 Anhinga-Robert Dana Poetry Prize, selected by Major Jackson. His collection Tragic City investigates the events of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre and how it impedes the city’s progress to this day. It is forthcoming from Anhinga Press in October of 2021.
Jasmine Elizabeth Smith (she/her) is a Black poet from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. She received her MFA in Poetry from the University of California in Riverside. Her poetic work is invested in the diaspora of Black Americans in various historical contexts. It has been featured in POETRY and World Literature Today among others. She is the 2021 winner of the Georgia Poetry Prize and her collection South Flight is forthcoming with the University of Georgia Press fall of 2021. Alexxus Browning is a 25 year old, biracial, self-taught photographer and filmmaker born and raised in Tulsa, OK. Learn more about her work at pholexx.com
