Remica Bingham-Risher is the author of three books of poems: Starlight & Error (Diode, 2017, winner of the Diode Editions Book Prize), What We Ask of Flesh (Etruscan, 2013, shortlisted for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award), and Conversion (Lotus, 2007, winner of the Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award). She is currently the Director of Writing and Faculty Development at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA. Bingham-Risher earned an MFA from Bennington College, is a Cave Canem fellow and a member of the Affrilachian Poets. Among other journals, her work has been published in New Letters, Callaloo, and Harvard Review.
To read more of this author’s work:
“My Mother Recalls Protests,” Langston Hughes Tribute, Vol. 12:1, Winter 2011.