Her work is published in Tab, the Mississippi Review, Urban Voices: 51 Poems from 51 American Poets (San Francisco Bay Press, 2014), and other publications.īuchanan has been awarded fellowships from the Sundance Institute, PEN America Emerging Voices, the USC Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities, and the City of Los Angeles (COLA) Department of Cultural Affairs. She has freelanced for the Los Angeles Times, the LA Weekly, and other outlets. Buchanan has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and is an Oxfam Ambassador.Īn educator and journalist for more than 25 years, Buchanan is the founding literary editor of Harriet Tubman Press and an expert in African American and American Indian literature and culture. She is the author of five books, including the award-winning memoir Black Indian (Wayne State University Press, 2019), winner of a 2020 Indie New Generation Book Award a finalist for the 2021 Mississippi Review poetry contest and a PBS NewsHour selection for the "top 20 books to read" to learn about institutional racism.
Shonda Buchanan is an award-winning poet, a fiction and nonfiction writer, and an educator.
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