Glenis Redmond is nationally renowned award-winning poet and teaching artist traveling the world sharing and teaching poetry. She writes about the strength of her Afro-Carolinian roots, while exploring their weighted and palpable histories. Glenis is a literary community leader. She is dedicated to coaching and uplifting youth poet’s voices. She co-founded a literary program called Peace Voices in her hometown of Greenville, SC from 2012-2019. Glenis is also Kennedy Center Teaching Artist, a Cave Canem poet, and Poet-in-Residence at the Peace Center. Her work has been showcased on NPR and PBS and has been most recently published in Orion Magazine, the North Carolina Literary Review, Obsidian Literature and Arts in the African Diaspora, Story South, About Place and Carolina Muse. She has recently won awards for her poems featuring Harriet Tubman (conductor of the (Underground Railroad) Harriet Jacobs (enslaved woman who hid in attic 7 years to escape her owner, then turned abolitionist and writer) and Harriet E. Wilson (first African American novelist). These poems will be published in Glenis’ upcoming chapbook, The Three Harriets and Others by Finishing Line Press in 2021. Her latest book, The Listening Skin will be published by Four Way Books in 2022. In 2020 Glenis received South Carolina’s highest award, The Governor’s Award for the Arts.
(Bio source – glenisredmond.com)
