Allison Hedge Coke, poet, memoirist, fiction, & scriptwriter, has been an invitational performer in international poetry festivals in Colombia, Venezuela, Argentina, Canada, and Jordan and foreign poet at Shandong University in Wei Hai, China. Fiction publications include: This Land Press, Konch, Best American Fiction, Black Renaissance Noire, Indian Country Noir (Akashic), and Bombay Gin. She came of age cropping tobacco and working fields, waters, and working in factories. Hedge Coke has taught various art, theater, music, creative writing, literature, cultural philosophy, education, for pre-school, K-12, university & master classes.