Vida Cross

Vida Cross is a Chicago blues poet whose work draws on her family roots in the city, her home in Bronzeville, the paintings of Archibald J. Motley Jr., and the poetry of Langston Hughes. She holds MFA degrees in writing and filmmaking from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is a Cave Canem Fellow. Her debut book, Bronzeville at Night: 1949, was published by Awst Press in 2017.