Aberjhani

Poet, Creative Nonfiction Writer

Savannah, GA
Georgia US

Author's Bio

Aberjhani is an American author, poet, and artist-documentarian whose career spans nearly three decades of literary and humanitarian advocacy. He is widely-acclaimed as co-author of the groundbreaking Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance (Facts on File), which won a Choice Academic Title Award, and author of Dreams of the Immortal City Savannah. He is the recipient of a 2026 cultural arts fellowship for his work in progress, “A Passion Supreme, the Ike Carter Story,” on the life and times of the celebrated HBCU radio programmer.

His cultural documentations explore intersections of art, history, biography, and spirituality. Among the titles included within his extensive corpus are: These Black and Blue Red Zone Days and Greeting Flannery O'Connor at the Back Door of My Mind. A native of Savannah, Georgia, Aberjhani is renowned for his skillful blending of lyrical creativity and ecological stewardship to explore themes of social justice and community healing.

Publications & Prizes

Creative Nonfiction

Book:
Dreams of the Immortal City Savannah (Cyberwit.net, 2019)

Poetry

Book:
Suzanne Jackson: Five Decades (Telfair Museums, 2019)
Prizes won: 

Choice Academic Title Award
New Jersey Notable Book of the Year Award
Best History Book Award
PEN Ameican Center Writers' Fund Grant
Authors Guild Writers' Support Grant 
SFJ Foundation Fellowship
Best Savannah Poet and Spoken Word Artist of the Year Award
Irene Tromble Literary Prize for Best Work in the Savannah Literary Journal
Creative Loafing Entertainment Magazine
" Critic's Pick" for Best Savannah Author Year 
Award for Journalistic Excellence, Armed Forces Europe
Freedom Foundation Essay Competition Bronze Medal 
Thomas Jefferson Journalism Award 
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Personal Favorites

Favorite authors: 
Harlem Renaissance Writers, French Existentialists, Black Arts Movement Authors, Sufi Poets, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Literary Nobel Laureates in general.
What I'm reading now: 
Beneath the Underdog by Charles Mingus, The Autobiography by Miles Davis, You Had Me at Bonjour: A Midlife Memoir of Romance and Reinvention by Dufflyn Lammers

More Information

Identifies as: 
African American
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Savannah, GA
Georgia
Raised in: 
Savannah, GA
Georgia
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Last update: Jul 17, 2026