She is the 2014 winner of the Crab Creek Review poetry contest, and a New York Foundation for the Arts and Commonwealth Short Story Award Finalist. Her work has appeared in Black Renaissance Noire, The Caribbean Writer, Fourteen Hills Press, and elsewhere. Idrissa Simmonds is a fiction writer and poet. She directs the poetry program of the Nuyorican Poets Café. Browne is a Cave Canem and Poets House alumna and the author of several books including Smudge and Redbone. Browne (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Idrissa Simmonds (Editor), Jamila Woods (Editor), Patricia Smith (Foreword). Influenced by Lucille Clifton and Gwendolyn Brooks, much of her writing explores blackness, womanhood, and the city of Chicago. Browne’s most popular book is Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of Afr. Poet and vocalist Jamila Woods was raised in Chicago, and graduated from Brown University, where she earned a BA in Africana Studies and Theatre & Performance Studies. This anthology breaks up the myth of hip-hop as a boys’ club, and asserts the truth that the cypher is a feminine form. “ one of the most diverse and important poetry anthologies of the last 25 years.”―Latino Rebelsīlack Girl Magic continues and deepens the work of the first BreakBeat Poets anthology by focusing on some of the most exciting Black women writing today.
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