Metta Sáma

Metta Sáma is author of Swing at your own risk (Kelsey St. Press, 2019); The Year We Turned Dragon (Portable Press @ Yo-Yo Labs, 2016); and After “Sleeping to Dream”/After After (Nous-zot Press, 2014).

Sáma directed both the Center for Women Writers (CWW) and the creative writing program at Salem College in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where she also taught. Sáma has also served on the advisory board of Black Radish Books and at Cave Canem. She is the founder of Artists Against Police Brutality/Cultures of Violence and is a senior fellow at the Black Earth Institute.