Khalisa Rae is a poet, queer rights activist, journalist, and educator in Durham, North Carolina, and a graduate of the Queens University MFA program. Her chapbook, Real Girls Have Real Problems, was published in 2012, and her recent work has been seen in PANK, Sundog Lit, Crab Fat, Damaged Goods Press, Red Room Poetry’s New Shoots poetry anthology, Glass Poetry, TERSE., Luna Luna, The Hellebore, Homology Lit, Dancing Bear Books: WOMXN Anthology, Tishman Review, and Obsidian, among others. She was a Furious Flower Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize finalist and a winner of the Fem Lit Magazine Contest, Voicemail Poetry Contest, White Stag Publishing Contest, and Bright Wings Poetry Contest. She is Managing Equity and Inclusion Editor of Carve Magazine and Consulting Poetry Editor for Kissing Dynamite. Unlearning Eden is forthcoming from White Stag Publishing in Summer 2021. She is currently the Writing Center Director at Shaw University and the newest writer for NBC-BLK and Black Girl Nerds.

Books by Khalisa Rae:

Other poems on the web by Khalisa Rae:
Two poems
Three poems
"Mackerel"
Two poems
Two poems
Seven poems
"I Love to Hate My Gilmore Girls Obsession"
"Tea Party at the Cemetery"
"Mermaids & Ghost Ships"
"Apology"
Two poems

Khalisa Rae's Website.

Khalisa Rae on Twitter.

About Ghost in a Black Girl's Throat:

"Ghost in a Black Girl's Throat pursues agency, selfhood, and disturbing meditations on inhumanity. These poems deliver truth and rage with the precision of a visionary heart and the rancid tears of a poisoned ghost. This powerful collection bears witness to the fraught overlap between women's bodies and minds. Ghost in a Black Girl's Throat reframes the black body politic as sacrament, benediction, delicacy, and tenderness. These verses are timeless refrains sizzling on parched tongues. All praises for the testament of these poems that bring a full communion of blessed assurances to wise women daring oceans to erase our footprints and to wild girls chasing winds that steal the scent of herstory."
—Jaki Shelton Green