Walidah Imarisha
Author · 3 books
Walidah Imarisha is a writer, public scholar, educator and spoken word artist. She co-edited the anthology Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements, and was one of the editors of the first anthology about 9/11, Another World is Possible. She authored Angels with Dirty Faces: Three Stories of Crime, Prisons, and Redemption, winner of the 2017 Oregon Book Award for Creative Nonfiction, as well as a poetry collection Scars/Stars. Imarisha is currently working on a book about Oregon Black history, forthcoming from AK Press. Her work has appeared in dozens of publications, including the hip hop anthology Total Chaos: The Art And Aesthetics of Hip Hop, Letters From Young Activists, Word Warriors: 35 Women Leaders in the Spoken Word Revolution, The Quotable Rebel, Daddy, Can I Tell You Something, Joe Strummer: Punk Rock Warlord and Life During Wartime: Resisting Counterinsurgency. She directed and co-produced the Katrina documentary Finding Common Ground in New Orleans. She has taught at Stanford University, Portland State University, and Oregon State University.
