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Camille D. Yarbrough [1]

Listed as: 
Poet, Spoken Word Artist
Public address: 
New York, NY
New York US
Email: 
nacamilleyarbrough@gmail.com
Bio: 

Camille Yarbrough is an award-winning author, poet, writer, performance artist, composer, and lyricist.

Camille Yarbrough wrote a three-part series “Black Dance In America” 1980-1981 was published by Black Collegian Magazine. Female Style and Beauty in Ancient Africa: A Photo Essay was published in The Journal of African Civilization’s Black Women in Antiquity edited by Ivan Van Sertima.

Eight Page excerpt of Nana Camille Yarbrough’s soon to be published autobiography “Strip Down Personal” pages 160-167 is in the current issue of Black Renaissance Noire. (Volume 17, Issue 2, Fall 2017)

Camille Yarbrough is interviewed in the forthcoming documentary Conversations: The Black Radical Tradition by Ed Stokes.

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
In which languages are you fluent?: 
English
Favorite authors: 
Toni Morrison, Alice Childress, Charles Dickens, Ta-Nehisi Coates
Born in: 
Chicago, IL
Illinois
Raised in: 
Chicago, IL
Illinois
Website: 
https://www.camilleyarbrough.com [2]
Identifies as: 
African American
Prefers to work with: 
Any

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