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About the Poet
Monique Harris
Monique Harris, born in Virginia, is an African American poet raised in various parts of the South. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing from Indiana University, where she was encouraged to embrace her voice, heritage, and worked with Appalachian writers like Crystal Wilkinson. Immediately after graduate school, she stopped writing for many years; simply lived, intuitively knowing she would return to her writing at another point in her life. During this “hiatus” time, she worked in various teaching positions, including teaching military students on Navy frigates and high school students in Detroit. She currently works at Wake Tech Community College in Raleigh, North Carolina. As a sensitive, quiet soul, Ms. Harris always found comfort in language for expression and healing. Her writing honors her voice, ancestry, spirituality, and mental health. Her poems explore conspiracies, self-love, family, spirituality, and black womanhood. Monique’s work can be found and or is forthcoming in Collateral, Torch Literary Magazine, Press Pause Press, Moria, Talon Review, Yellow Arrow Journal, Wards and other publications. Recently, she has been involved with the Rockvale Writers’ Colony in College Grove, Tennessee. Most days, she can be found hiking, reading, and holding sacred space for herself, family, friends, and ancestors. She is currently working on her first collection of poetry tentatively titled, “Mid-July.”