Imani Tolliver is an award-winning poet, artist, educator, public speaker, and event producer.
She is a Cave Canem Fellow and served as Poet Laureate for the Watts Towers Arts Center. Tolliver is a recipient of the Avest Award for Literary Arts, the Howard University John J. Wright Literary Award, and the Lannan Literary Fellowship at the Folger Shakespeare Library.
She has also been recognized by the City of Los Angeles for her work as a promoter, host, and publicist in support of the literary arts in Southern California.
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More than a memoir, Tolliver’s stunning poems are an elegy to girlhood, an awakening, a forgiveness, a piercing and provocative ode to what’s remembered, what’s left behind and what moves us forward.
- Jacqueline Woodson, MacArthur Fellow & Best Selling Author
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