Telling Our Stories - Leaving Our Legacy

Tamiko Beyer’s - is a widely published poet, writing instructor and editor.  Her poetry has appeared in The Collagist, Little Red Leaves, Sonora Review, and elsewhere. She serves as the poetry editor of Drunken Boat and leads community writing workshops with the New York Writers Coalition. She is a founding member of Agent 409: a queer, multi-racial writing collective, a Kundiman Fellow, and an M.F.A candidate at Washington University in St. Louis. Find her online at wonderinghome.com and blogging at kenyonreview.org.

Jacqueline Johnson - Besides being the author of "A Gathering of Mother Tongues" Ms. Johnson also authored "Stokely Carmichael: The Story of Black Power;" Simon & Shuster Books, 1990.  She has received awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts, The Mid-Atlantic Writers Association's Creative Writing Award in Poetry, McDowell Colony for the Arts and is a Cave Canem Fellow. A teaching artist, she has taught poetry at Pine Manor College, Poets House, and the Frederick Douglass Creative Arts Center.The list of other publication by Ms. Johnson is more than impressive.