Jada Renée Allen

Jada Renée Allen is the recipient of fellowships, scholarships, and support from Tin House, the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, the Frost Place, and Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation, among other organizations. Her writing either appears or is forthcoming in Academy of American Poets’ “Poem-a-Day,” Callaloo, Chicago Reader, Gulf Coast, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Logic(s), wildness, and elsewhere. She is the founding executive director of the Frances Thompson Writers Studio for Black Trans Study. Allen lives in Phoenix, on occupied O’odham and Hohokam lands.