allia abdullah-matta is a poet and Professor of English at CUNY LaGuardia & The Graduate Center/Africana Studies Program where she teaches Africana literature & culture, creative writing, Ethnic Studies, and Women Gender, and Sexuality Studies courses. Her creative and scholarly work addresses the culture and history of Black women and Black bodies and voices in fine art and poetry. Her poetry has been published in Newtown Literary, Promethean, Marsh Hawk Review, Mom Egg Review Vox, Global City Review, the Jam Journal Issue of Push/Pull, and Queensbound. Her chapbook(s) washed clean & blues politico (2021) were published by harlequin creature (hcx).
