Shanta Lee

Shanta Lee is a writer, visual artist, and public intellectual whose work spans poetry, creative nonfiction, and photography. Her poetry collections include GHETTOCLAUSTROPHOBIA (2021) and Close Is... & Hopscotch Between the Living and the Dead, published by Diode Editions. She has won the National Arts Strategies - New England Creative Community Fellowship and the Abel Meeropol Social Justice award. She regularly writes for Ms. Magazine and Art New England. Her multimedia exhibition Dark Goddess has been shown at several Vermont museums and arts centers. She holds an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts.