A Washington University and Carnegie-Mellon University graduate, poet Chezia Strand was born and raised in D’Ville in St. Louis but lived mostly in Baltimore. Her writing is a synt...voir plusA Washington University and Carnegie-Mellon University graduate, poet Chezia Strand was born and raised in D’Ville in St. Louis but lived mostly in Baltimore. Her writing is a synthesis of intergenerational ideas and spaces around the concept of being human and living in the African Diaspora. She is the editor of the eight-member Diva Squad Poetry Collective Series of which this is the fourth book. Her work in Teaching Jean Toomer’s 1923 Cane and her articles on Caribbean writers Earl Lovelace and Kamau Brathwaite are a part of her theatre work, which includes her original plays.voir moins