Karen Wade

April Walker

Frank X Walker

Multi-disciplinary artist and Kentucky native, Frank X Walker, is the co-founder of the Affrilachian Poets and creator of the word Affrilachian. He is the author of five collections of poetry:Affrilachia,…

Lillien Waller

Lillien Waller is a poet and editor of the anthology American Ghost: Poets on Life after Industry (Stockport Flats, 2011), which explores the impact of deindustrialization on community, culture, personal…

Wendy S. Walters

Wendy S. Walters’ work resides at the intersection of the poem, essay and lyric drama. She is the author of the forthcoming book of poetry, Longer I Wait, More You Love…

Jay Ward

Sasha Warner-Berry

Nagueyalti Warren

Nagueyalti Warren is a poet and professor of pedagogy emerita in African American Studies, Emory University. Her poetry has appeared in Essence Magazine , African American Review, Obsidian and anthologized in The Ringing…

Maya Washington

Maya Washington is a writer, actor, filmmaker, and arts educator making a difference in the world. She holds a BA from the University of Southern California and an MFA from…

Claudette Webster

Claudette M. Webster is a native of Jamaica, West Indies, and an educator, community organizer and facilitator.  She is a Cave Canem Fellow (2003, 2004) and a founding member of The Berkshire…

Arisa White

Arisa White received her MFA from UMass, Amherst, and is the author of Perfect on Accident, You’re the Most Beautiful Thing That Happened, Black Pearl, Post Pardon, A Penny Saved, and Hurrah’s Nest. Her poetry…

Marvin White

Marvin K. White is the author of four collections of poetry published by RedBone Press: Our Name Be Witness; Status; and the two Lammy-nominated collections last rights and nothin’ ugly fly. His poetry has been…

Simone White

Simone White is from Philadelphia. She is a graduate of Wesleyan University, Harvard Law School and The New School’s Graduate Program in Creative Writing. She is the author of House…

Nicole White

Melissa Whitley

Carolyn Beard Whitlow

Awarded residencies at Yaddo, Soul Mountain, and Hedgebrook, Carolyn Beard Whitlow is Dana Professor of English at Guilford College in Greensboro, NC, where she has taught Creative Writing and African-American…

Michelle Whittaker

Marcus Freddie Wicker

Marcus Wicker’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in jubilat, Crab Orchard Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Harpur Palate, Rattle, Ninth Letter, Sou’Wester, Mythium, DIAGRAM, and cream city review, among other journals.…

Daniel J Wideman

Tonya Wiley

Tonya Wiley is a poet, freelance writer, teaching artist and educator from New Haven, Connecticut. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from The University of Central Oklahoma and is…

Caroline Williams

Ian Williams

Ian Williams is the author of You Know Who You Are, (poems, Wolsak and Wynn, 2010) and Not Anyone’s Anything (fiction, Freehand, forthcoming 2011). His writing has appeared in Gargoyle,…

Karen Williams

Lorelei Williams

Lorelei’s work has been recognized through fellowships from the Breadloaf Young Writer’s Conference and the New York Foundation for the Arts.  She has performed throughout NYC and globally.  Lorelei’s writings…

Phillip B Williams

0 false 18 pt 18 pt 0 0 false false false Phillip B. Williams is a Chicago, Illinois native. He is the author of the chapbooks Bruised Gospels (Arts in…

El Williams III

El Williams III is a St. Louis native. His poetry has been published or is forthcoming in Alaska Quarterly Review, The Journal, River Styx, Vinyl and elsewhere. He has received…

Rashida Williams

Bakar Wilson

Keith S. Wilson

Keith S. Wilson spent the first 12 years of his life growing up in Torrance, California.  From there, he moved to Northern Kentucky where he currently resides.  He received his…

L. Lamar Wilson

  Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4   L. LAMAR WILSON, Virginia Tech MFA ’10 and English PhD candidate at UNC-Chapel Hill, is the author of SACRILEGION,…

Ronaldo Wilson

Bridgette Wimberly

Yolanda Wisher

Yolanda Wisher earned a B.A. in English/Black Studies from Lafayette College and a M.A. in Creative Writing/Poetry from Temple University.  At the age of 23, she was named the first…

Demetrice Anntía Worley

Demetrice Anntía Worley, an Illinois native, received a D.A. in English, Composition Theory and Pedagogy, with a concentration in creative writing, Illinois State University; a M.A. in English, University of Illinois,…

Sharon Dennis Wyeth

Sharon Dennis Wyeth is the author of over fifty books for children, including “Something Beautiful” a Parents’ Best Book, and “Corey’s Underground Railroad Diaries.” Her work has been honored by The Children’s…

Toni Wynn