NIGERIA LOCKLEY

Thursday, January 7, 2016, 6:00-7:15 pm

Calabar Imports Harlem

2504 Frederick Douglass Blvd. (at 134^th St.)

Harlem, NY 10030

NIGERIA LOCKLEY holds two master's degrees, one in English secondary education, which she utilizes as an educator with the New York City Department of Education. Her second master's degree is in creative writing.  Nigeria's debut novel, Born at Dawn received the 2015 Phillis Wheatley Award for First Fiction. Nigeria serves as the Vice President of Bridges Family Services, a not-for-profit organization that assists student parents interested in pursuing a degree in higher education. She is also the deaconess and clerk for her spiritual home, King of Kings and Lord of Lords Church of God.  Nigeria is a New York native who resides in Harlem with her husband and two daughters.

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.

Be sure to mark your calendar for readings/discussions with Kaitlyn Greenidge, January 21;  Kim Coleman Foote, Feb. 4; Jacqueline Bishop, Feb 18; Amber Atiya, Mar 3; Yvette Louis, Mar 17; Pamela Booker, Apr. 7; Farah Jasmine Griffin, Apr. 21; Stephanie Renee Payne, May 5; Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, May 19;  Cynthia Mannick, June 9.  

Stay updated by following the WOMEN WRITERS OF THE DIASPORA blog at http://womenwritersofdiaspora.blogspot.com/.

The venue, CALABAR IMPORTS HARLEM, is provided by ATIM OTUN, and the series is co-sponsored by MOSAIC LITERARY MAGAZINE. 

 Questions, comments, suggestions, RSVP: womenwritersofdiaspora@gmail.com