Women Writers of the Diaspora presents

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. 

For information, suggestions, or to RSVP email me at womenwritersofdiaspora@gmail.com