Imani Tolliver has been a featured performer at the Smithsonian Institution, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, World Stage Performance Gallery, University of Southern California, California State University at Long Beach, California State University Los Angeles, and the Los Angeles Central Library. She served as the 2007-08 Poet Laureate for the Watts Towers Arts Center and was awarded a Certificate of Appreciation by the City of Los Angeles for her work promoting the literary arts in Southern California. A graduate of Howard University, tolliver was a Cave Canem Fellow in 1997, 1999, and 2003. Her poems are included in the anthologies Corners of the Mouth: A Celebration of Thirty Years at the Annual San Luis Obispo Poetry Festival, Beyond the Frontier, and Bum Rush the Page.