sistories staff

FOUNDING DIRECTOR/EDITOR IN CHIEF

Ashley Nickens (she/her) M.A., is a storysharer and educator. Born in Maryland, raised in Virginia, and made a woman in the Carolinas, her work is grounded in her southeastern roots, and seeks to continue a tradition of Black feminist storysharing that uncovers, recovers, and (re)creates models of possibility across time and space. Her writing has appeared in RaceBaitr, Black Femme Collective, and Engaging Collections.

Community Director

Cidney Tiiggett (she/her), a member of Delta Sigma Theta Inc. and former host of “We See You Sis” podcast, specializes in curating conversations around Black southern femmes in an effort to normalize their shared experiences. She is a graduate from Appalachian State University with a degree in Global Studies, and a concentration in post traumatic growth.

Creative Director

Mariah Webber (she/her), M.A., is a writer, artist, reseracher, and performer from Waco, North Carolina. She holsd a BA in Pscychology from Appalachian state University and a MA in Sociology from UNC Charlotte. She is currently a Ph.D. Candidate in Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara researching Black trans, queer and feminist theories, Black Southern studies, visual culture studies, and Black diasporic religions. Mariah’s past writing has been featured in touching:blackstudy(2022), Sistories: A Literary Magazine (2019; 2021), & becoming undisciplined: a zine (2019).

Prose Editor

Danielle Buckingham (she/her), affectionately known as Dani Bee, is a Chicago-born, Mississippi-raised writer based in Oxford, Mississippi. A 2021 Lambda Literary fellow, Dani’s work has been published in Midnight & Indigo literary magazine, Raising Mothers, MadameNoir, and elsewhere.

Danielle Buckingham