Abo ut the Authors
\nAlexa Patrick \;is a vocalist and poet from Connecticut. She is the author of \;Remedies for Disappearing \;(Haymarket Books\, 2023) an d holds fellowships from Cave Canem\, the DC Commission on the Arts and Hu manities\, and more. \;Previous \;artistic partnerships of Alexa&r squo\;s include Meta\, Microsoft\, The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts\, and the National Museum of Women in the Arts. In sp ring 2023\, Alexa made her stage production debut as Un/Sung in the opera& nbsp\;We Shall Not Be Moved\, (dire. Bill T. Jones). Her work app ears in a variety of publications\, including \;Adroit\, The Rumpu s\, CRWN Magazine\, \;and \;The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 2: Black Girl Magic. \;
\nCarolyn Joyner\, a Washington\, D.C. poet\, uses contemporary and traditional form to examine life&rsquo\;s themes. Her work has been featu red in various literary magazines and anthologies\, among them\, Revise the Psalm: Work Celebrati ng the Writing of Gwendolyn Brooks\, Pleiades\, Obsidian\, Gathering G round\, Full Bleed\, ArLiJo\, Beltway Poetry Quarterly\, Plume Poetry 10\, and Little Patuxent Review. She is a former WritersCorps in structor\, volunteer poetry workshop leader for DC Public Library and the River of Words community project and has a Master of Arts degree in creati ve writing from Johns Hopkins University. She is a Cave Canem and Hurston- Wright Foundation fellow and has been awarded artist fellowship grants fro m the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA). Her debut collection\, Imagine His Mother W itnessing\, is forthcoming in 2026.
\njonetta \;ros e barras \;is a poet\, fiction writer\, public scholar\, cult ural curator\, and contextual journalist. She holds an honorary doctorate from Trinity Washington University. Her journalism has appeared in \;n umerous \;publications: The DC Line\, \;The Washington Post\,& nbsp\;The Washington City Paper\, \;Essence\, \;The Crisis&nb sp\;magazine\, \;The Washingtonian\, and \;The New&nb sp\;Republic \;among others. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in several anthologies including \;Amazing Graces: Yet Another Co llection of Fiction by Washington Area Women\, \;Full Moon on K Street: Poems about Washington\, D.C.\; \;It&rsquo\;s All Love: Black Writers on Soul Mates\, Family and Friends\; \;and&nb sp\;In Search of Color Everywhere: A Collection of African American Po etry-Stewart \;(Tabori &\; Chang). She has published two colle ctions of original poetry: \;The Corner Is No Place for Hiding \;and \;Dawn. Her best-selling memoir\, \;Wh atever Happened to Daddy's Little Girl: The Impact of Fatherlessness on Af rican American Women\, is considered the definitive work on the s ubject. \;
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