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Sheree L. Greer, Executive Director
A Milwaukee, Wisconsin native, Sheree L. Greer is a writer and educator currently living and working in Tampa, Florida. She founded Kitchen Table Literary Arts Center to showcase and support the work of black women and women of color writers. She is the author of two novels, Let the Lover Be and Black Lives Matter-inspired A Return to Arms, a short story collection, Once and Future Lovers, and a student writing guide, Stop Writing Wack Essays. She has been published in First Bloom Anthology, LezTalk Anthology, Ms. Fit Magazine, REVIVE Magazine, Hair Trigger, The Windy City Times, Reservoir Magazine, Fictionary, Bleed Literary Journal, and the Windy City Queer Anthology: Dispatches from the Third Coast. She has performed her work across selected venues in Milwaukee, New York, Miami, Chicago, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Atlanta, and Tampa. Sheree received a Union League of Chicago Civic Arts Foundation award, earned her MFA at Columbia College Chicago, and is a VONA/VOICES alum, Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice grantee, Yaddo fellow, and Ragdale Artist House Rubin Fellow. She completed Creative Capital Core Skills workshops and was awarded an Division of Cultural Affairs grant to support her current nonfiction work. Her latest essay, "Bars" published in Fourth Genre Magazine, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Sheree teaches composition, creative writing, fiction workshop, and African American Literature at St. Petersburg College in Florida. Sheree draws endless inspiration from poet/writer/warrior, Audre Lorde, author of Zami: A New Spelling of My Name and Sister Outsider.
A Milwaukee, Wisconsin native, Sheree L. Greer is a writer and educator currently living and working in Tampa, Florida. She founded Kitchen Table Literary Arts Center to showcase and support the work of black women and women of color writers. She is the author of two novels, Let the Lover Be and Black Lives Matter-inspired A Return to Arms, a short story collection, Once and Future Lovers, and a student writing guide, Stop Writing Wack Essays. She has been published in First Bloom Anthology, LezTalk Anthology, Ms. Fit Magazine, REVIVE Magazine, Hair Trigger, The Windy City Times, Reservoir Magazine, Fictionary, Bleed Literary Journal, and the Windy City Queer Anthology: Dispatches from the Third Coast. She has performed her work across selected venues in Milwaukee, New York, Miami, Chicago, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Atlanta, and Tampa. Sheree received a Union League of Chicago Civic Arts Foundation award, earned her MFA at Columbia College Chicago, and is a VONA/VOICES alum, Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice grantee, Yaddo fellow, and Ragdale Artist House Rubin Fellow. She completed Creative Capital Core Skills workshops and was awarded an Division of Cultural Affairs grant to support her current nonfiction work. Her latest essay, "Bars" published in Fourth Genre Magazine, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Sheree teaches composition, creative writing, fiction workshop, and African American Literature at St. Petersburg College in Florida. Sheree draws endless inspiration from poet/writer/warrior, Audre Lorde, author of Zami: A New Spelling of My Name and Sister Outsider.
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Tiffiany "Slam" Anderson, Community Outreach Director and Workshop Instructor
Tiffiany “Slam” Anderson is the former president of The Poets@USF, a student-focused open mic and poetry organization at the University of South Florida. As a spoken word artist and writer, Slam works in the community to promote literacy and self-empowerment. She writes, “I have struggled. I have cried. I know doubt and insecurity. I’ve been to the bottom with no idea or plan on how to make it back up, but I have never quit. I have never given up. I am a black woman. A warrior and a queen. I am strength, I am beauty, and I am triumph. I am proud to be a woman of the Kitchen Table. I am proud to be a black woman. I am proud to be me.”
Slam’s favorite writer is Pearl Cleage, author of What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day.
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Jasmine Smith, Financial Director
Jasmine Smith is a Tampa, Florida native who holds a BA in Management from St. Leo University and earned her MBA with a concentration in finance at South University. Jasmine attributes her love of literature and arts to her grandmother, who instilled her love and appreciation of the arts in her children and grandchildren with frequent trips to museums, concerts, plays, and always providing lots and lots of books. As a child, Jasmine participated in an enrichment program called Saturday’s Children Inc., whose mission was to open up the world of art to young black children by offering classes like reading, dance, drama, and wood carving. She has joined the Kitchen Table team as an opportunity to do something great for the community that will forever live in the hearts and minds of youth of color, just as Saturday’s Children Inc. lives forever in hers.
Two of her favorite books are childhood classics that were given to her by her grandmother, Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold and Ashanti to Zulu by Margaret Musgrove. Jasmine still has these two books in her collection.
Adrien Julious, Program Facilitator and Getaway Co-Director
Adrien Julious is an author and poet, originally from Newark NJ, now residing in Tampa. She recently had her first book of poetry Brownish Green Female Sheep published by Vital Narrative Press. She hosts her own blog authenticallyadrien.com. She's competed as a storm poet in the Women of The World Poetry Slam, had her short fiction included in the Fantastic Ekphrastic Art Show twice, and is currently finishing her debut YA novel.
Adrien Julious is an author and poet, originally from Newark NJ, now residing in Tampa. She recently had her first book of poetry Brownish Green Female Sheep published by Vital Narrative Press. She hosts her own blog authenticallyadrien.com. She's competed as a storm poet in the Women of The World Poetry Slam, had her short fiction included in the Fantastic Ekphrastic Art Show twice, and is currently finishing her debut YA novel.
Silk Jazmyne Hindus, Program Facilitator
Silk Jazmyne is a reading, writing, drinking student of life who loves narrative in all its forms. She’s a book reviewer, essayist and fiction writer. Her work has appeared both online and in print at Black Girl Nerds, Straylight Magazine, Femme Feature Magazine, The Gateway Review and Serendipity Literary Magazine. She was born in New York and grew up all over as a Navy brat. She holds a MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Tampa and a Bachelor’s Degree in Communications from Florida International University. She’s an Account Coordinator at a boutique advertising agency by day and a magical realist author by night. She loves the artistically strange and currently lives and works in Florida.
Silk Jazmyne is a reading, writing, drinking student of life who loves narrative in all its forms. She’s a book reviewer, essayist and fiction writer. Her work has appeared both online and in print at Black Girl Nerds, Straylight Magazine, Femme Feature Magazine, The Gateway Review and Serendipity Literary Magazine. She was born in New York and grew up all over as a Navy brat. She holds a MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Tampa and a Bachelor’s Degree in Communications from Florida International University. She’s an Account Coordinator at a boutique advertising agency by day and a magical realist author by night. She loves the artistically strange and currently lives and works in Florida.
