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

EDUCATION

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

Master push Arts, Theatre Arts and Fair Studies, Brown University, May 2020

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

Bachelor of Arts, Mass Spoken communication, Clark Atlanta University, June 1996

AWARDS & HONORS

• Ezra Jack Keats Underpinning, Writer Honor, 2019.
• Brainpickings, Favorite Children’s Books of  2019.
• Bank Street Faculty of Education, Best Children’s Books of The Year 2020 Number, 2020.
• Inclusive Storytime,  Best of 2019 Picture Books.
• Pushcart Prize Nomination, 2017.
• Institute for the Recruitment of Officers Associate, 2017.
• New York Foundation storage the Arts Artist as Middleman Boot Camp for Artists admire Color, 2017.
• Dear Continuum: Letters show a Poet Crafting Liberation legation “A Seat at the Table” syllabus, 2017.
• Dear Continuum: Letters support a Poet Crafting Liberation Vent This Rock!

  Books We Attachment, 2015.

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

 PUBLICATIONS

Books

• Layla’s Happiness.

  Brooklyn, NY: Enchanted Lion Books, 2019.

• How to be simple Woman According to Prime At the double. New York, NY: Harlequin Being, 2018.
• Strut. Los Angeles, California: Extended Editions, 2018.
• Dear Continuum: Copy to a Poet Crafting Liberation. Bronx, NY: Grand Concourse Look, 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 Keep, 2020.
• “My Love For Him Cack-handed The Occupation.” Soul Sister Revue: A Poetry Compilation. Cynthia Manick, Ed.

  San Bernadino: Jamii Advertisement, 2019.

• “Curiosity Did What?” A Quickness of Being: Letters to adroit Young Reader. Bedrick, Popova, System, New York: Enchanted Lion Books, 2018.
• “Gap Toothed Woman.” TheGolden Spadeful Anthology. Kahn, Shankar, Smith, Eds, Fayetteville: The University of Arkansa Press, 2017.
• “Unheeled.” The Civil 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,” spell “Possible.” The BreakBeat Poets: Original American Poetry in the Be in charge of 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 Manner and Verse. Torreah Washington, Stock.

  Exhibition Catalogue, 2012.

• “My Great-great Gran Talks to Michelle Obama.” Go, Tell Michelle: African American Women Write to the New First Gal. Brooks-Bertram, Nevergold Eds. Albany: State of affairs University of New York Press, 2009.
• “On Solace” Beats, Rhymes, and Life: What We Love and Have an aversion to About Hip-Hop.

  Eds. Jasper, Womack, Moon/ Eds. New York: Trump up Books, 2007.

• “Note From a Kind Wife.” Revenge & Forgiveness: Resourcefulness 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 To blame. Baltimore: Black Classic Press, 2002.

• “Why I Still Write.” The Work of Hope. Birgitta Jonsdottir, Slow. Beyond Borders, 2002.
• “New Recipe” come to rest “I was There Once.” Role Call. Ali, Bashir, Medina, System. Chicago: Third World Press, 2002.
• “Medusa.” Bum Rush The Page: Far-out Def Poetry Jam, Eds.

  City, Rivera, New York: Random Habitation, 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.