Remica Bingham-Risher’s work has been published in The New York Times, The Writer’s Chronicle, Callaloo and Essence. She is the author of Conversion(Lotus, 2006), What We Ask of Flesh (Etruscan, 2013) and Starlight & Error (Diode, 2017). In August 2022, her book Soul Culture: Black Poets, Books and Questions That Grew Me Up will be published by Beacon Press. She is the Director of Quality Enhancement Plan Initiatives at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA, where she resides with her husband and children.

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers is a poet, novelist, and essayist. Her first novel, The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois, was an Oprah’s Book Club pick, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, and was included in “10 Best Books of 2021” lists for The New York Times, The Washington Post, and TIME, among others.  The author of five books of poetry, Honorée’s latest collection, The Age of Phillis, won the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work: Poetry and the Lenore Marshall Prize for Poetry. Jeffers teaches at the University of Oklahoma.

Remica Bingham Risher on Soul Culture: Black Poets, Books, and Questions that Grew Me Up with Honorée Fanonne Jeffers