Remica Bingham-Risher

Remica Bingham-Risher is the author of three poetry collections: Room Swept Home (Wesleyan University Press, 2024), a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Starlight & Error (Diode, 2017); and What We Ask of Flesh (Etruscan, 2013) as well as the essay collection Soul Culture: Black Poets, Books, and Questions that Grew Me Up (Beacon Press, 2022).

Bingham-Risher is the director of quality enhancement plan initiatives at Old Dominion University, which means she helps faculty integrate writing into the classroom. She lives in Norfolk, Virginia.