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BIO

Anastacia Tolbert is a writer, performance artist, activist, and workshop facilitator.

 

A Northwest transplant with roots in the Midwest and West Indies, Anastacia Tolbert has invested her time and energy as a teacher, workshop facilitator and performance artist since 2008. Her writing crosses genres and defies boundaries-- moving with ease from poetry to fiction-- from memoir to screenplays. Her poetic form uses white space as narrator and seeks to be a drum for feminism, race, sexuality, trauma and grief. My poems often reflect on a succinct moment, using voice or character development as catalysts to tell a story in the progression of stanzas. Her Chapbook, 26 recently published by Dancing Girl Press is a chapbook exploring all aspects of woman/girlhood. Recently she has begun a yearlong theatrical mixed-media project, 9 Ounces: A One Woman Show. A 2015 Pushcart Nominee, her poetry, fiction & nonfiction have been published Although rarely seen without her trademark smile, Tolbert's writing plays on the delicate boundary between danger and discomfort-- she explores feminism through motherhood, race, trauma, and grief. Recently, Tolbert has been expanding her creative repertoire into the field of visual art, and has exhibited her painting and photography surrounding the body as a polarized place of both the private and political.

 

EXPLORE MY PROJECTS:

9 Ounces (Performance)

Fabric of Our Lives (Installation)

Leave a Message After the Beep! (Poetry Curation)

Miko Kuro's Midnight Tea (Featured Artist/Performance)

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