1994 John J. Wright Literary Award, Howard University
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2024 Librettist, Fire and Blue Sky, World Premiere, LA Opera’s 2023/24 Season, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
2024 Featured Visual Artist, Beneath the Soil Volume III, Queer Survivors E-Zine, Time to Tell Project
2024 Featured Visual Artist, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Heritage Month Calendar & Cultural Guide, City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs
2024 Broadside Illustrator, Daniel Alexander Jones: Rites of Passage, UCLA Nimoy Theater, Center for the Art of Performance, University of California, Los Angeles
2024 Featured Visual Artist, African American Heritage Month Calendar & Cultural Guide, City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs
2023 Featured Visual Artist & Poet, Beneath the Soil Volume II, Queer Survivors E-Zine, Time to Tell Project
2022 Featured Poet & Speaker: ONE Archives Foundation Queer Biennial, Hand in Hand with Traci Kato-Kiriyama & Imani Tolliver
2022 Featured Visual Artist & Poet, Queer Diasporas: Lavender City of Dreams, a Virtual and Live Exhibition, City of West Hollywood
2022 Featured Visual Artist, Spectrum: Spring Fantasy
2021 Featured Poet & Speaker, We Rise LA, 2021: Love Letters in Light, Short Film Documentary, Electric Park Films
2021 Featured Poet, Love Letters in Light, Public Art Project, LA County Library, Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health and We Rise LA
2021 Facilitator, Poetry & Visual Art Workshop, Virtual Poetry and Creative Arts Festival, West Chester University
2021 Facilitator, Poetry & Visual Art Workshop, International Women’s Writing Guild
2021 Facilitator, Poetry Workshop, Elysian Valley Art Collective
2018 Featured Poet, L.A. Times Festival of Books
2020-2007 Supervisor, Cultural & Fine Arts Division, Community Services, Department City of Buena Park Civic & Youth Theater, Concerts, Festivals, Large-Scale Special Events, Visual Art Exhibitions, Leisure Classes,Cultural Excursions
2016 Panelist, I Come to Witness: Writers as the Children of Audre Lorde and James Baldwin, Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference
2014 Keynote Speaker, Voice Music For Whole Living: Peter J. Harris & Imani Tolliver, Annual Multicultural Conference, Metropolitan State Hospital
2013 Keynote Speaker, Poetry is Not a Luxury: Exploring the Healing Nature of the Written Word, Annual Multicultural Conference, Metropolitan State Hospital
2011 Keynote Speaker, LGBTQ+ Pride Graduation Ceremony, California State University Long Beach
2010-2008 Co-Facilitator & Co-Founder, ArtPod | Artists Relating to the Politics of Dreams: A Queer Normative Collective for Artists Dedicated to Social Justice with D’Lo and Imani Tolliver, Southern California Library
2009 Facilitator, Poetry Workshop, Department of Women's Studies California State University Long Beach (2009, 2007, 2006, 2005)
2008 Panelist, Queer Text(ures): Reading and Writing LGBTQ+ Community History, Department of Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
2008 Panelist, Leimert Park Village Book Fair, The World Stage
2007 Guest Speaker, Images in Blackness, Bunche Library and Media Center, University of California, Los Angeles
2007 Facilitator, Poetry Workshop, Poetry at The Village, Ed Gould Plaza LA Gay and Lesbian Center
2007-2005 Director of Student Services, American Musical and Dramatic Academy
2005-2004 Director of Programming & Community Outreach, A Place Called Home
2004 Curator & Emcee|Host, Friday Nights at the Getty Presents: Pure, The Getty Center
2004-2002 Director, Independent Living Program, The Way In Youth Center, The Salvation Army
2003 Curator & Emcee|Host, Juneteenth Hip-Hop Poetry Slam: New School vs. Old School, The World Stage
2002 Facilitator & Emcee|Host, Wednesday Night Poetry Workshop, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center
2002 Curator & Emcee|Host, Poetry Reading Featuring Rachel Kann and Charlotte Young, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center
2002 Curator & Emcee|Host, Poetry Reading Featuring Jennifer Bowens and Tracy Holton, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center
2002 Curator & Emcee|Host, Poetry Reading Featuring Aida Salazar and Alicia Vogl Saenz, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center
2002 Curator & Emcee|Host, Juneteenth Poetry Slam: Harlem Renaissance vs. Black Arts Movement, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center
2002-1999 Program Director, Weingart Youth Center, The Salvation Army
2001 Co-Curator, The World Beyond Poetry Festival, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center
2001-1999 Assistant Program Director & Academic Director, South Central Youth Project, The Salvation Army
2000 Editor, Stories: The Life of Ellen Cook, Autry Museum of the American West
1999-1997 Language Arts Teacher, Marcus Garvey School
1997 Facilitator, Storytelling Workshop, Bringing African Storytelling to the Classroom, District of Columbia Public Schools
1997-1996 Co-Coordinator, Tellin’ Stories Project
1996 Editor, Women, Words and Other Wonders: Writings from The Dinner Program for Homeless Women, WritersCorps/AmeriCorps National Service (1996-1995)
1996 Editor, The Office of the President, William Jefferson Clinton
1996 Facilitator, Poetry Workshop, African American Poetry Lecture Series, Higher Achievement Program (1996, 1995)
1996-1994 Instructor, Creative Writing, WritersCorps/AmeriCorps National Service
1995 Editor, Janus Literary Journal, Howard University
LITERARY PUBLICATIONS 2024 Beneath the Soil Volume III: Queer Survivors E-Zine, Time to Tell Project
2023 Intertextuality Starts Here: Art Block Zine Vol. 8, DSTL Arts
2023 SKEW 4: Black Embodiment, Level Ground Magazine
2023 Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Heritage Month Calendar & Cultural Guide, City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs (2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017)
2023 Beneath the Soil Volume II: Queer Survivors E-Zine, Time to Tell Project
2023 Visual Art & Poetry | Beneath the Soil Volume II, Queer Survivors E-Zine, Time to Tell Project
2022 Nonwhite and Woman, Woodhall Press
2022 African American Heritage Month Calendar & Cultural Guide, City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs (2022, 2021, 2020, 2019)
2022 The Library Love Letter: Letters One
2022 Scenes of Southern California Vol. 2: Poetry of Places, Four Feathers Press
2021 SKEW 3: Black Abundance, A Celebration of Blackness as an Extravaganza of/in Black Beings, Expressions and Revolutions, Level Ground Magazine
2021 LACMA Unframed, I See Myself In You, Personal Essay and Self-Portrait Tutorial Inspired by the Black American Portraits Exhibition
2021 Beneath the Soil: Queer Survivor's e-Zine, Time to Tell Project
2020 Public Intellectuals
2017 Author, Runaway: A Memoir in Verse, World Stage Press
2017 Voices From Leimert Park: Redux, Harriet Tubman Press
2017 Cultural Daily
2015 Corners of the Mouth: A Celebration of Thirty Years at the Annual San Luis Obispo Poetry Festival, Deer Tree Press
2011 Don’t Blame the Ugly Mug, Moon Tide Press
2009 Van Gogh’s Ear #7: The Supernatural Edition
2007 HIS RIB: Poems, Stories & Essays by Her
2006 Voices from Leimert Park: A Poetry Anthology
2006 Poetry Super Highway, 8th Annual Yom HaShoah Holocaust Remembrance Day
2006 Hand Tooth Nail
2005 Get Underground
2004 All About Jazz
2004 Poetic Diversity
2003 My Man: Love Poems Chapbook
2002 San Gabriel Valley Poetry Quarterly Vol. 17
2002 Beyond the Frontier, Black Classics Press
2001 Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam, Russell Simmons Productions
2000 Step into a World: A Global Anthology of the New Black Literature, Wiley and Sons
2000 Drum Voices Review, Eugene Redmond
1999 Cave Canem VIII, Cave Canem Publishing
1999 Black Love, Beyond Baroque Books
1998 Jones Juke Joint Magic, Jones Juke Joint Still Press
1997 Cave Canem II, Cave Canem Publishing
1997 The Drumming Between Us, Peter J. Harris Publications
1996 Poets Mama Didn't Raise, Smirna Press
1995 Artistic Pedigree Magazine
1994 The Flow: New Black Poetry in Motion, ECA Associates Press
INTERVIEWS 2021 ONE Archives, Pride Publics: Summer is an Elegy with Traci Kato-Kiriyama
2021 Spectrum News 1, Love Letters in Light Hopes to Bring Angelenos Together Through Poetry By David Mendez
2020 Ukulele Magazine, The Story of Lift Every Voice and Sing and its Lasting Impact By Heidi Swedberg
2020 Voyage LA, Meet Imani Tolliver
2017 Los Angeles Review of Books Podcast, A Conversation with Janice Rhoshalle Littlejohn & Imani Tolliver
2017 Los Angeles Review of Books, I Didn’t Live a Manageable Life By Janice Rhoshalle Littlejohn
2013 Her Kind, A Literary Community Powered By Vida, Women in Literary Arts, Hair as Storyteller and Reimaginator: A Conversation with Imani Tolliver and Beth Gilstrap
2008 Nigerian Times, The African American Writer with a DifferenceBy Sumaila Umaisha
2005 KPFK 90.7, The Beautiful Struggle
2003 KPFK 90.7, Beneath the Surface
2003 KPFK 90.7, The Morning Show
2002 National Black Arts Festival
2000 Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, Po Ho One: The Poetry Hosting Conclave
1997 Howard University, D.C. Area Writing Project: An Institute for Master Teachers
1995 National Public Radio, Talk of the Nation, WritersCorps/AmeriCorps National Service
1995 WPFW FM, The Poet and the Poem, WritersCorps/AmeriCorps National Service
1995 The Washington Home of Stewart Mott, Kitchen Table Press, The Importance of a Women of Color Press
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