by Jada Renée Allen
Jada Renée Allen is a writer, educator, and culture worker from South Side Chicago. She is the recipient of support from Tin House, The Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, Community of Writers, The Frost Place, and Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation. Her writing appears or is forthcoming in Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, Callaloo, Chicago Reader, Gulf Coast, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. She is the founding executive director of The Frances Thompson Arts Foundation and editor-in-chief of Bodemé. Allen lives in Phoenix, Arizona, on U.S.-occupied Yavapai, O’odham, and Hohokam territorial bodies.