Metta Sáma

Metta Sáma is author of Swing at your own risk (Kelsey Street Press, 2019), the year we turned dragon (Portable Press @ Yo-Yo Labs, 2016), and the chapbook After “Sleeping to Dream”/After After (Nous-zot Press, 2014), among other titles. Sáma directed both the Center for Women Writers and the creative writing program and chaired the English department at Salem College in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Sáma served on the advisory board of Black Radish Books and on the board of Cave Canem. She is the founder of Artists Against Police Brutality/Cultures of Violence and is a senior fellow at the Black Earth Institute. Sáma lives in North Carolina with two dogs and an elementary school student.