Antoinette Brim is the author of Psalm of the Sunflower (Aquarius Press/Willow Books, 2009).  Her poetry has appeared in various journals and magazines including Reverie Midwest African American Literature, The November 3rd Club, Tidal Basin Review and anthologies including 44 on 44: Forty-Four African American Writers on the 44th President of the United States, In Our Own Words:  A Generation Defining Itself, Not A Muse and Just Like A Girl: A Manifesta.   She is an Assistant Editor of Surviving and Thriving:  365 facts in Black Economic History by Dr. Julianne Malveaux.

Antoinette Brim is a Cave Canem Foundation fellow and a Harvard University W.E.B. Du Bois Fellow at the National Endowment of the Humanities Summer Institute. She is a recipient of the Archie D. and Bertha H. Walker Foundation Scholarship to the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and a Pushcart Prize nominee. 

Additionally, she often guest hosts Patrick Oliver’s Literary Nation Talk Radio (KABF 88.3, Little Rock) for which she has interviewed a variety of entertainers, literary figures, political pundits and community developers, including Cornelius Eady, Gloria Browne-Marshall, Nathalie Handel, Denene Millner and BerNadette Stanis.

Antoinette Brim earned a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing/Poetry from Antioch University/ Los Angeles and a Bachelor of Arts in Literature and Language with an emphasis in Creative Writing from Webster University.  A sought after speaker, editor, educator and consultant, she teaches at Pulaski Technical College in North Little Rock, Arkansas. 

* Photo by Allen Loibner