Antoinette
Brim
teaches Creative Writing, Composition, and World
Literature at Pulaski Technical College in North Little
Rock, Arkansas. She earned an MFA 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.
She is a Cave Canem Fellow and a Harvard University
W.E.B. Du Bois Fellow (National Endowment of the
Humanities Summer Institute. July 2006). She is also a
recipient of the Archie D. and Bertha H. Walker
Foundation Scholarship to the Fine Arts Work Center in
Provincetown (July 2007).
Her poetry
has appeared in various journals, magazines and
anthologies including Reverie Midwest African
American Literature, The November 3rd
Club, the Cave Canem edition of Drunken Boat
and the newly released anthology Just Like A Girl: A
Manifesta. Her poem, K-Mart on Asher is Closing,
was nominated for Best on the Net. Her poem,
Thirteen Ways of Looking at Love, was nominated for
a Pushcart Prize.
Antoinette
Brim’s debut collection of poetry, Psalm of the
Sunflower is forthcoming from Willow Books in the
fall of 2009.
* Photo
by
Allen Loibner
