Keisha-Gaye Anderson is a Jamaican-born poet, creative writer, visual artist, and media professional living in Brooklyn, NY. She is the author of the poetry collection Gathering the Waters (Jamii Publishing 2014), which was accepted into the Poets House Library and the National Library of Jamaica. Her new poetry book, A Spell for Living, is the recipient of Editors’ Choice recognition for the 2017 Numinous Orisons, Luminous Origin Literary Award. The collection is
forthcoming from Agape Editions in 2019 as a multimedia e-book, that includes music and Keisha’s original artwork. Keisha’s second new poetry collection, Everything Is Necessary, will be published by Aquarius Press/Willow Books as a
print publication in 2018. facebook.com/keishagayeanderson
Keisha’s writing has been published in a number of literary journals, magazines, and anthologies, including Kweli Journal, Small Axe Salon, Interviewing the Caribbean, Renaissance Noire, The Killens Review of Arts and Letters,
Mosaic Literary Magazine, African Voices Magazine, Streetnotes: Cross Cultural Poetics, Caribbean in Transit Arts Journal, The Mom Egg Review, Split This Rock: Poems of Resistance, Power & Resilience (blog), and many others. She
is a past participant of the VONA Voices and Callaloo Creative Writing workshops, and was named a fellow by the North Country Institute for Writers of Color. Keisha has also been shortlisted for the Small Axe Literary
Competition. She is a founding poet with Poets for Ayiti. Proceeds from their 2010 chapbook For the Crowns of Your Heads helped to rebuild Bibliotheque du Soleil, a library razed during the earthquake in Haiti. She is a graduate of
the Syracuse University Newhouse School and holds an M.F.A. in creative writing from The City College, CUNY.
Check out her current book Everything Is Necessary
Keisha-Gaye Anderson is a current day Black Writer giving significant contributions to our history and Culture!
