KEISHA-GAYE ANDERSON
Thursday, December 3, 2015, 6:00-7:15 pm
Calabar Imports Harlem
2504 Frederick Douglass Blvd. (at 134th St.)
Harlem, NY 10030
Keisha-Gaye Anderson is Jamaican-born a poet,
creative writer, and screenwriter. She is the author of a collection of poetry
titled Gathering the Waters (Jamii Publishing, December 2014). In 2013, she was selected to participate in
the Callaloo Creative Writing workshop for fiction at Brown University where
she was chosen to be one of the program’s featured readers. In 2010, she was
named a fellow by the North Country Institute for Writers of Color, and was short
listed for the Small Axe literary competition.
Keisha’s writing has appeared in a number of collections,
anthologies, and literary magazines, including Renaissance Noire, The Killens Review of Arts and Letters, Small Axe
Salon, Streetnotes: Cross Cultural Poetics, African Voices Magazine, Mosaic
Literary Magazine, Captured by the City: Perspectives on Urban Culture, Poems
on the Road to Peace: A Collective Tribute to Dr. King, Sometimes Rhythm,
Sometimes Blues: Young African Americans on Love, Relationships, Sex, and the
Search for Mr. Right, the Mom Egg, Caribbean in Transit Arts Journal, Women
Writers in Bloom Poetry Salon blog, and Bet
on Black: African American Women Celebrate Fatherhood in the Age of Barak Obama.
She is also a founding poet with Poets for Ayiti. Proceeds from their 2010
chapbook, For the Crowns of Your Heads, helped to rebuild Bibliotheque du
Soleil, a library razed during the 2010 earthquake in Haiti.
Her journalistic work includes news and documentary
productions for CBS, PBS, and Japanese television (NHK, Nippon, and others), as
well as feature articles for magazines like Psychology
Today, Black Enterprise, Honey, and Teen
People. As a screenwriter, she has written for Hallmark cable channel news
programming and worked as a documentary film screenwriting consultant. Keisha
is longstanding member of the Harlem Arts Alliance Screenwriting Workshop, led
by award-winning screenwriters Jamal Joseph, Eddie Pomerantz, and Zach Sklar.
Keisha, who lives in Brooklyn, NY with her husband and two
children, holds a B.A. from Syracuse University’s Newhouse School and College
of Arts and Science and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from The City College,
CUNY. For the past ten years, she has worked as a higher education
communications and marketing manager.
WOMEN WRITERS OF THE
DIASPORA is a reading/discussion series created and moderated by
DR. CELESTI COLDS FECHTER, Exec.
Director of Education Success Services and Prof., Org. Behavior, King Graduate
School, New Rochelle. Women Writers of
the Diaspora features poetry, prose, memoir, essay, reportage, urban writing by
African and African diasporan women.
We have a great lineup for 2016, starting with Nigeria Lockley, Thursday, January 7, and Kaitlyn Greenidge, Thursday, January 21. Be sure to follow my blog to find out about our other readers: http://womenwritersofdiaspora.blogspot.com/.
The venue, CALABAR
IMPORTS HARLEM, is provided by ATIM OTUN, and the series is co-sponsored by
MOSAIC
LITERARY MAGAZINE.
