CELESTE RITA BAKER -- 6PM, THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 2016

Calabar Imports Harlem

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

Harlem, New York 10030

CELESTE RITA BAKER, now happily ensconced in Harlem, is a Virgin Islander through the Head of Main Street Bryans and the St. Johnian McKetneys.  Baker’s  genres include speculative fiction, magical realism and reality-based fiction.  She   has been published in The Caribbean Writer, Calabash, Margin’s Magical Realism, Scarab, Moko Magazine, and Abyss & Apex Magazine.  Her collection of short stories, Back, Belly & Side: True Lies and False Tales (Aqueduct Press), is written in Caribbean dialect and Standard English.  Baker is presently working on a speculative fiction novel about a saint who reluctantly finds herself in the body of a Black woman in New York City about 50 years from now.   

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.  The series features poetry, prose, memoir, essay, reportage, urban writing by African and African diasporan women. Past readers include Opal Palmer Adisa, Amber Atiya, Keisha-Gaye Anderson, Jacqueline Bishop, Pamela Booker, Cheryl Boyce-Taylor, Merle Collins, Lorraine Currelley, Carole Boyce Davies, Bridget Davis, LaTasha Diggs, Kim Coleman Foote, Ifeona Fulani, Kaitlyn Greenidge, Farah Jasmine Griffin, Monica Hand, Eartha Watts Hicks, J.P. Howard, Linda Susan Jackson,  Pamela Jackson, Jacqueline Johnson, Patricia Spears Jones, Tayari Jones, Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa, Nigeria Lockley, Yvette Louis, Cynthia Manick, Diana McCaulay, Rosalind McLymont, Pam Mordecai, Elizabeth Nunez, Ebele Oseye, Dolen Perkins-Valdez, Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts, Cecily Rodway, Gammy Singer, Danyel Smith, Patricia Smith, Martha Southgate, Eisa Ulen, and Tiphanie Yanique.  

The venue, Calabar Imports Harlem, is provided by Atim Anette Otun.  The series is co-sponsored by Mosaic Literary Magazine.

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