Diamond Janese Sharp is a DC-based poet and writer originally from Chicago. She has performed at Chicago’s Stage 773 and her work has been featured on Chicago Public Radio and published in the Wellesley Review, Feministing, Zora Magazine, Say What Magazine, the Chicago Reader and Bop, Strut, and Dance: A Post-Blues Form for New Generations, a forthcoming anthology edited by Tara Betts and Afaa Weaver.