Kamilah Aisha Moon

A recipient of fellowships to the Cave Canem Foundation, the Prague Summer Writing Institute, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA, and the Vermont Studio Center, Moon's work has been featured or is forthcoming in several journals and anthologies, including Harvard Review, jubilat, Sou’wester, Oxford American, Lumina, Callaloo, Essence, Bloom, Gathering Ground, The Ringing Ear and Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry. A featured poet in conferences and venues around the country, she has also led creative writing residencies for the Langston Hughes National Poetry Project, Community~Word Project, Acentos and Voices UnBroken. She has taught English and Creative Writing at Medgar Evers College-CUNY, Drew University and Adelphi University. Moon received her MFA in Creative Writing from Sarah Lawrence College. Her poetry collection, SHE HAS A NAME, is forthcoming from Four Way Books. (Photo: Rachel Eliza Griffiths)