Bianca Spriggs
Affrilachian Poet and Cave Canem Fellow, Bianca Lynne Spriggs, is a writer and multidisciplinary artist from Lexington, Kentucky. Currently a doctoral candidate at the University of Kentucky, she holds degrees from Transylvania University and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Named as one of the Top 30 Performance Poets in the country by The Root, Bianca is the recipient of the 2016 Sallie Bingham Award, a 2013 Al Smith Individual Artist Fellowship in Poetry, Artist Enrichment and Arts Meets Activism grants from the Kentucky Foundation for Women, and a Pushcart Prize Nominee.
Bianca is the author of Kaffir Lily (Wind Publications, 2010), How Swallowtails Become Dragons (Accents Publishing, 2011), Call Her By Her Name (Northwestern University Press, 2016), and, The Galaxy Is a Dance Floor (Argos Books, 2016), as well as the co-editor for Circe's Lament: An Anthology of Wild Women (Accents Publishing, 2016) and the forthcoming Undead: Ghouls, Ghosts, and More (Apex Publications, 2017). Her work may be found in numerous journals and anthologies, including, Oxford American, Drunken Boat, New Growth: Recent Kentucky Writings (Jesse Stuart Foundation), America! What's My Name?! (Wind Publications) Red Holler: Contemporary Appalachian Literature (Sarabande), Fan Phenomena: Star Trek (Intellect Books), The Louisville Review, the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion Union Station Magazine, Rabbit Catastrophe Review, Tidal Basin Review, Muzzle, Caduceus, Alehouse, Reverie, Appalachian Heritage Magazine, Still: The Journal, Duende, Obsidian, Osedax Press, and others. Bianca is the Literary Arts Liaison for the Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning, creator and program director for The SwallowTale Project: Creative Writing for Incarcerated Women, as well as the managing editor for pluck! The Journal of Affrilachian Art & Culture and poetry editor for Apex Magazine.
Sponsored by the Office of Diversity, the African/African American Studies Program, the Department of Anthropology, Sociology & Social Work, the Department of English & Theatre, the Appalachian Studies Program, the Department of Languages, Cultures & Humanities, and the Honors Program
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Published on February 09, 2017