Barbara Fant
Barbara Fant has been writing and performing for over 15 years. She competed in 9 National Poetry
Slam competitions, and she is a World Poetry Slam finalist. She is the author of two poetry collections,
Paint, Inside Out (2010) and Mouths of Garden (2022). Her work has been featured in the Academy of
American Poets, Electric Literature, McNeese Review, The Ohio State University Press, Button Poetry,
and Def Poetry Jam, amongst others. She has received residencies in Havana, Cuba and Senegal, West
Africa.
For over 12 years, she had led healing-informed poetry workshops for both youth and adults who are
incarcerated, those in community, adults in recovery, and survivors of human trafficking and
domestic violence. She is certified as a Healing Centered Engagement specialist and holds both an
MFA in Poetry and a Master of Theology. She is the founder of the Black Women Rise Poetry
Collective and co-founder of The Senghor Project, West African International Artist Residency.
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