Listen. Respect. Engage. Inspire.
Agitate for social justice.
Grow in peace.
About Toni
My poetry, essays, articles, and creative nonfiction appear in Black Nature, The International Review of African American Art, and other good places.
I’ve been an advisor to the California Arts Commission and the Virginia Commission for the Arts. Academic background is in International Relations, Social Welfare, and Instructional Technology at Clark University, the University of Copenhagen, San Francisco State University, and Virginia Tech.
A selection of my limited-edition portfolio and handmade books are available here.
Exhibitions + Cultural Sites
Recent Writing, Planning and Community Work with Museums, Historic Houses, and Sites of Memory
Beauty. Divinity. Wisdom. Truth.
Poems + Creative Nonfiction
I’m a Cave Canem graduate fellow and member of the Community of Writers. I just bought a typewriter.
“I like her style. It crackles. She consistently surprises with her word choices, her tone, and wit.”
— CHARLES JOHNSON, NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER & MACARTHUR FELLOW
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This East-coast-based group of black women surveys contemporary gardening and agriculture and explores where the field is going. Journalism, essays, lit crit, sowing and planting, arts and nurture.