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Jamaican-born Keisha-Gaye
Anderson is a poet, author, screenwriter, and former journalist who, in
2010, was named a Fellow by the North Country Institute for Writers of Color
and shortlisted for the Small Axe literary competition. Her work has appeared
in the Killens Review of Arts and
Letters; Small Axe Salon; The Mom Egg; Afrobeat Journal; Poems on the Road to
Peace: A Collective Tribute to Dr. King; Sometimes Rhythm, Sometimes Blues
(Seal Press); and Streetnotes: Cross
Cultural Poetics. Her television work includes documentary
production for CBS, PBS, and Japanese television, and her feature articles have
appeared in Psychology Today, Black
Enterprise, Honey, and Teen People. Anderson lives
in Brooklyn and teaches African American
literature at CUNY. This series celebrates the literature written by women across
the African Diaspora (African-American, Afro-Caribbean, Afro-Latina,
Afro-European, Afro-Asian, and continental African). Past readers include Opal
Palmer Adisa, Jacqueline Bishop, Pamela Booker, Merle Collins, Carole Boyce
Davies, Bridget Davis, Monica A. Hand, Ifeona Fulani, Linda Susan Jackson,
Pamela Jackson, Tayari Jones, Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa, Diana McCaulay, and Tiphanie
Yanique. The series is moderated by Celesti Colds Fechter, associate dean
for Academic Services at The New School for Public Engagement.
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