Khalisa Rae is an award-winning poet, activist, and journalist in Durham, NC. Her work has been seen in various literary magazines such as Tishman Review, Rust and Moth, Frontier, and she currently writes for NBC-BLK, Black Girl Nerds, Catapult, B*tch Media, among others. Her debut collections, Ghost in a Black Girls Throat are forthcoming from Red Hen Press on April 13, 2021, and Unlearning Eden from White Stag Publishing Jan 2022. Her mission to empower women and girls through body liberation and healing generational curses.