Autor/-in: Idrissa Simmonds-Nastili

Idrissa Simmonds-Nastili. is a Haitian-American, Jamaican-Canadian writer, poet, and essayist. She is the recipient of the Crab Creek Review Poetry Prize, a finalist for the Commonwealth Short Story Award and the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in poetry, as well as co-editor of BreakBeat Poets Vol. 2: Black Girl Magic. Her work has most recently appeared in Vogue, LitHub, WIRED Magazine, O: The Oprah Magazine. , and more. She has been the recipient of fellowships and residencies from Hedgebrook, Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Poets House, and VONA/Voices, and holds an MFA in fiction from Warren Wilson College. She is the curator of Brunch & Word, a bi-coastal literary salon. Her roots are in Brooklyn, New York and Surrey, British Columbia, and she calls Oakland home.