“Picasso in Africa” by Najee Dorsey
Yona Harvey
Poet and Writer
about
YONA HARVEY is the author of the poetry collections You Don’t Have To Go To Mars for Love, which won the Believer Book Award for Poetry and Hemming the Water, winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. She co-wrote with Roxane Gay Marvel’s World of Wakanda and co-wrote with Ta-Nehisi Coates Black Panther & the Crew. She has also worked with teenagers writing about mental health issues in collaboration with Creative Nonfiction magazine. She is a 2022 Guggenheim Fellow.
Yona can be retained as a speaker, reader, or workshop facilitator.

publications
You Don’t Have to Go to Mars for Love
A Stahlecker series selection
by Yona Harvey
Four Way Books, available now
isbn 194558856X, 9781945588563
media
Featured video Panacea Poets: prescription poems, all pandemic long
YONA HARVEY is the author of the poetry collections You Don’t Have To Go To Mars for Love (Four Way Books, 2020) and Hemming the Water (Four Way Books, 2013), winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. She contributed to Marvel’s World of Wakanda and co-authored with Ta-Nehisi Coates Black Panther and the Crew. She has worked with teenagers writing about mental health issues in collaboration with Creative Nonfiction magazine.
Yona Harvey Recommends …
pw.org
10 Black Poets of Past and Present Who Deserve Unending Recognition for Their Work
Well + Good
Artists Offer New Maps of Pittsburgh’s Soul
wesa.fm
Fellowship Awardee, George A & Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation
brown.edu
A Pioneer in the Literary World of ‘Black Panther’
DiverseEducation.com
Walks in Wakanda: The Black Panther in Comics and Culture
YouTube
Alumna writes for Black Panther comics
OSU.edu
Lives of A Poet
PITT Magazine
Women Writers of Color: Yona Harvey
therumpus.net
writings
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of my female species systematically undermined for the sake of a male leader.
Of course, I stole my files to burn later.
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“Maher’s willful ignorance as to the value of comics inhibits him from recognizing the emotional struggles and triumphs delivered to us every Comic Book Wednesday. Why should a man whose empire revolves around his limited perspective suddenly see? For everyone else, though, there’s an opportunity to view Black Panther, Storm, Luke Cage, Misty Knight and Manifold in a new light—a light that does not blind but illuminates the depth and complexity of who these characters might be.”
Read MARVEL’S VOICES #1 at your local comic shop!
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She’s got a hundred & two temperature, delivery room nurses said. You’re
gonna live, though—long enough to know you’re going
to go as quickly as you came, gonna make your mother swear by you,
SIX x ATE: Fruition
Wednesday, December 8, 2021
7pm eastern
Virtual Event

CHAUTAUQUA WRITERS’ FESTIVAL
June 22-25, 2022
Writing Resilience – In person and on the grounds
SIX x ATE: Fruition
Wednesday, December 8, 2021
Online / webinar
Reading & Conversation – The Future of Black: Afrofuturism, Black Comics, and Superhero Poetry
Thursday, November 18, 2021
Online / webinar
Black Futures, Black Pasts
w/ Yona Harvey & Cherene Sharrard (Grimoire, Autumn House Press, 2020)
Friday, October 23rd 2020
Reading and Conversation with Crystal Williams
Thursday, March 18th 2021
5p pacific / 7p central / 8p eastern
Town Hall Seattle
Lyric World: Shin Yu Pai with Yona Harvey
In The Moment podcast
Episode 72 from October 5, 2020
Reading and Conversation with Marcel Walker sponsored by Michigan State University
Thursday, February 18, 2021
Books Noted Live: A Reading and Conversation with Yona Harvey and Taylor Johnson (Inheritance, Alice James Books, 2020)
Friday, October 23rd 2020 @ 7pm EDT
A Four Way Books Panel
Writing Working, and Wellness in a Time of Calamity
Friday, May 14 2021
1:15 pm pacific / 3:15 pm central / 4:15p eastern
Yona Harvey with Ted Mathys and Linda Hogan
From October 16, 2020


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Twitter: @yonaharvey
Instagram: @yonaharveywriter
Facebook: @yonaharveywriter

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Yona can be retained as a speaker, reader, or workshop facilitator through her contact form. Inquiries on publications, writings, poems and writing comics are appreciated and emails will be answered as her schedule permits.
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