Yona Harvey gave a Visiting Writer Reading at the Arts Research Center in April 2023, part of the Spring 2023 Flash Reading Series.
Yona Harvey is the author of You Don’t Have to Go to Mars for Love,which received the 2020 Award in Poetry from The Believermagazine. Hemming the Water, her first book of poems, was the winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award from Claremont Graduate University and a finalist for the Hurston/Wright Award.
She received the Inaugural Lucille Clifton Legacy Award in Poetry from St. Mary’s College of Maryland and has served as Poet In Residence for the Queensland Poetry Festival in Brisbane, Australia. Between the publication of her two poetry books, Harvey co-wrote Marvel Comics’ World of Wakanda, earning an Eisner Award for best limited series, and co-wrote the comic book series Black Panther & the Crew.
She was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and is a graduate of Howard University, the Ohio State University, and the University of Pittsburgh.
She lives in Northampton, Massachusetts, where she teaches at Smith College as the Tammis Day Professor of Poetry.