B. 1981

Remica Bingham-Risher, a native of Phoenix, Arizona, is a Cave Canem fellow and an Affrilachian Poet. She is the author of the poetry collections Conversion (Lotus, 2006), winner of the Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award; What We Ask of Flesh (Etruscan, 2013), shortlisted for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award; and Starlight & Error (Diode, 2017), winner of the Diode Editions Book Award and a finalist for the Library of Virginia Book Award. She is also the author of Room Swept Home (Wesleyan University Press, 2024), a book of poems with historical and family photographs, and the memoir, Soul Culture: Black Poets, Books, and Questions that Grew Me Up (Beacon Press, 2022). Her work has been published in the New York Times, The Writer’s Chronicle, Callaloo, and Essence. She is the director of quality enhancement plan initiatives at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, where she resides with her husband and children.