About Mariahadessa:

Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie is the author of Dear Continuum: Letters to a Poet Crafting Liberation (Grand Concourse Press) and Karma’s Footsteps (Flipped Eye Publishing). Her work has been published in North American Review, WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly, Black Renaissance Noire, VIDA, Crab Orchard Review, BOMB, Paris/Atlantic, and Listen Up! (One World Ballantine). Ekere has travelled across the United States sharing her poetry and ideas about healing. She has taught in New York, London, Amsterdam and Rundu, Namibia. Ekere earned an MFA from Mills College in 2002. She is a mother of three girls and an enthusiast of plant-based medicine-making.

Recent Work:
Bomb Magazine

Interviews, Profiles, and Press Releases:
Press Release for Strut
Interview at Blogging the Numinous

Stay Connected:
Website

Reviews:
Strut Reviewed at Spoken Black Girl
Strut Reviewed at Rhino