Khalisa Rae

Khalisa Rae is a poet, educator, and journalist based in Durham, NC, known for community activism and nonprofit work. She co-founded Poet.she, the Invisibility Project, and Athenian Press. Her debut collection, Ghost in a Black Girl's Throat, came out from Red Hen Press in 2021. Her second collection, Unlearning Eden, was announced for White Stag Publishing (listed as Winter 2021 on one page and 2022 on another).