Alysia Nicole Harris

[1] She has performed spoken word poetry in Germany, Canada, Slovakia, South Africa, and the UK, and at the United Nations.

[2] She was featured in the anthology The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip Hop,[3][4] which the Huffington Post describes as a “‘mixtape’ spanning the time from Hip Hop's birth to its explosion.”[5] She is the author of How Much We Must Have Looked Like Stars to Stars.

[6] Her work has appeared in Indiana Review,[7] Solstice Literary Magazine,[8] and Vinyl Poetry.

[9] Harris is a founding member of the performance poetry collective The Strivers Row.

[10] Harris is an editor-in-chief of the Southern new media publication Scalawag Magazine, which strives to spark “critical conversations about the many Souths where we live, love, and struggle.”[11] It publishes fiction as well as critical essays, political journalism, and poetry.