Remica Bingham-Risher

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

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