by Jada Ren茅e Allen
is a writer, educator, and culture worker from South Side Chicago. She is the recipient of support from Tin House, The Kenyon Review聽 Writers Workshop, Community of Writers, The Frost Place, and Voices of Our聽 Nations Arts Foundation. Her writing appears or is forthcoming in Academy of聽 American Poets鈥� Poem-a-Day, Callaloo, Chicago Reader, Gulf Coast, Hayden鈥檚聽 Ferry Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. She is the founding聽 executive director of The Frances Thompson Arts Foundation and editor-in-chief聽 of 叠辞诲别尘茅. Allen lives in Phoenix, Arizona, on U.S.-occupied Yavapai, O鈥檕dham,聽 and Hohokam territorial bodies.