Kendra N B AyaKendra N. Bryant Aya (s/her) is a Black lesbian woman poet who earns a living as an associate professor of English at North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro. Although we be theorizin is her debut work, Kendra has been writing, performing, an teaching poetry writing all her adult life. Inspired by the Harlem Renaissance, Black Arts Movement, Hip-Hop, Black Studies, and Alice Walker's womanism, Kendra's poetry aims to archive the Black experience, while propelling her lived experiences as Black lesbian woman. Kendra has published creative works in Glass: A Journal of Poetry; The Nervous Breakdown; and Solace: Writing, Refuge and LGBTQ Women of Color. Kendra has also published peer reviewed essays in journals like CLAJ, Journal of Basic Writing, and Studies in Popular Culture. She can be reached at: https: //linktr.ee/drknbryant. Read More Read Less