Life-Changing Writing

Bestselling author of I Twirl in the Smoke, Meres-Sia’s work as a writer and performer deals with helping marginalized groups center themselves through artistic expression and their personal narrative. Recently she collaborated with the de Young Museum of San Francisco for a series of poetry performances for the Kehide Wiley exhibition. She has also performed at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival; EDELO and Universidad de la Tierra in Chiapas, Mexico; and her poetry is in a permanent installation at the Oakland Museum of California — “Black Power in California.” She has collaborated with artists of the Zapantera Negra project with poetry featured in their exhibitions  in Cuba, Chiapas, Vienna, and Spain. She is a co-author of the KQED/BE-IMAGINATIVE watch guide for the Emmy-nominated film When the Water’s Get Deep.
When she is not writing, coaching writers, and performing, she is dreaming, teaching French at the local community college, and enjoying being a mother of two adult daughters.