Arts
[Poetry] Arisa continues the conversation with “Black Lesbians” contributors. Arisa is a Cave Canem fellow and MFA graduate from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and author of the poetry chapbooks Disposition for Shininess, Post Pardon, Black Pearl, Perfect on Accident (forthcoming), and “Fish Walking” & Other Bedtime Stories for My Wife. Her debut full-length collection, Hurrah’s Nest, was a finalist for the 2013 Wheatley Book Awards, 82nd California Book Awards, and nominated for a 44th NAACP Image Awards. Her newest full-length collection, You’re the Most Beautiful Thing That Happened, was nominated for the 29th Lambda Literary Awards. Arisa is currently co-authoring a middle-grade biography on the midwife and philanthropist Bridget “Biddy” Mason– slated for publication in 2019.