“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 the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Japan Creative Artists Fellowship.
Yona can be retained as a speaker, reader, or workshop facilitator.
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 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
“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!
SIX x ATE: Fruition
Wednesday, December 8, 2021
7pm eastern
Virtual Event

Yona is leading the Cave Canem Oral History Project, a collaboration between Cave Canem and the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics.


contact
social media
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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