Talia Kimberly Wright (they/them and she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist and writer born and raised on the Southside of Chicago. They are a 2019 Pink Door Fellow, 2022 Roots. Wounds. Words. Fellow, a current artist in residence with the Greystone Collective, and a fiction reader at ANMLY Lit. They have been published in In These Times, Hooligan Magazine, beestung Magazine and more. They are a Sundress Broadside contest finalist and have been nominated for Best-of-Net and Pushcart Prize awards. Their work is informed by Blackness, the great migration, and spending summer afternoons dancing under their grandparents’ Mulberry tree; their goal is to weave new tales using ancestral and learned knowledge with the intention of adding to the canon of Afro-Surrealism. They have a degree in multimedia journalism from Columbia College Chicago, where they also studied cultural studies. Currently, you can find working on their MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. 

CV Email: Taliakimberlywright@gmail.com