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Ami Mattison- SOREN LIT Fall 2021 ISSUE

Touring and performing professionally since 2002, Ami Mattison has been featured at various art venues, festivals, conferences, colleges, and universities across the US and Canada. In 2013, s/he was the recipient of the Fellowship of Southern Writers' Spoken Word Award. Acclaimed novelist, Dorothy Allison writes: “Always [Mattison] speaks for the despised in verse that hallows grief and embodies joy. The world is larger, wider, fuller for the people [s/he] brings alive in words.” Mattison taught poetry and creative expression in Detroit public schools while serving as a writer-in-residence at Inside Out Literary Arts Program. S/he's also taught at Emory University, Georgia State University, and Antioch College in Ohio. S/he currently resides in Alabama.

SOREN LIT Producer and Founding Editor- Melodie J. Rodgers

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Karma Bennett= SOREN LIT Fall Issue 2021

Karma Bennett lived in the South for two decades but has escaped to Oakland, CA. She is currently president of the Berkeley California Writers Club. Her most recent publication was in the book Collosus: Home, a collection to benefit Moms 4 Housing. She runs the website Subversas.com

SOREN LIT Producer and Founding Editor: Melodie J. Rodgers

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Rosa Ponton- SOREN LIT FALL ISSUE 2021

Rosa Ponton is a Louisiana born Spanish Instructor for Grambling State and Southern Universities. She holds Bachelors' degrees in English and Spanish from Howard University, a Masters' degree in Spanish from Virginia Tech, a MFA in Creative Writing from Queens University, and is completing the last year of her Ed.D in Education Leadership from Virginia Commonwealth University. She now resides in Tulum, Mexico where she is building her creative businesses and living in her purpose.

SOREN LIT Producer and Founding Editor: MELODIE J. RODGERS

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Karen Southall Watts- SOREN LIT 2021. FALL ISSUE

Karen Southall Watts currently writes and works in the Pacific Northwest, where she lives with a chronic case of homesickness for friends and family in the South. Her flash fiction and poetry have been featured at Fairfield Scribes, Free Flash Fiction, The Drabble, Sledgehammer Lit, and 101Words. She is also the author of several business books and articles. Reach her at @askkaren on Twitter

SOREN LIT Producer and Founding Editor- Melodie J. Rodgers

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Debra Bowling- SOREN LIT FALL Issue 2021

Debra Bowling is the author of The Memory of Flight. She grew up in Northeast Alabama with a love of books and writing.                                 After graduating from The University of Alabama with degrees in social work and criminal justice, she worked with issues such as domestic violence, runway teens, child abuse, and other areas while also writing articles and stories, taking photographs, and producing video documentaries.

SOREN LIT Producer and Founding Editor: Melodie J. Rodgers

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SOREN LIT Founding Editor and Producer: Melodie J. Rodgers

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Denise Berry-SOREN LIT FALL ISSUE 2021

Denise Berry currently has 20 years in public health administration and international humanitarian relief fundraising.  She has also worked with CARE USA,  Carter Presidential Center, and the Centers for Disease Control in International Health.  Denise and her family has lived and worked in the US, Germany, and The Netherlands. She loves learning.  Her current focus is deconstructing American history to discover TRUTH: researching WWII and international history. Denise loves writing and languages. She is planning to write a book from the manuscripts her father left.  Most importantly, Denise is working on the legacy she will leave for her granddaughter Amelia and her daughter Sydney; one that incorporates truth, faith, and justice.

SOREN LIT Founding Editor and Producer: Melodie J. Rodgers

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Carla Sameth- SOREN LIT FALL ISSUE 2021

Carla Sameth’s memoir, One Day on the Gold Line, was originally published July 2019 and will be reissued by Golden Foothills Press in 2022. Her Chapbook, What Is Left will be published by dancing girl press this November 2021. Her writing on blended/unblended, queer, multi-racial and single parent families appears in a variety of literary journals and anthologies including: Call Me {Progress}Literary Journal (University of Alabama), The Rumpus, MUTHA Magazine, Brain/Child, Narratively, Longreads, Brevity Blog, Entropy, Anti-Heroin Chic, Global Poemic, and The Nervous Breakdown. Carla’s work has been twice named as Notable Essays of the Year in Best American Essays. A Pasadena Rose Poet, a West Hollywood Pride Poet, and a former PEN Teaching Artist, Carla teaches creative writing to high school and university students, and has taught incarcerated youth. She lives in Pasadena with her beloved partner, Milo. https://carlasameth.com/

SOREN LIT Founding Editor and Podcast Producer: Melodie J. Rodgers

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Laila Sokera Henderson- SOREN LIT Fall Issue 2021

Laila Sokera Henderson is an American poet, writer and actor of Nigerian descent. She is currently a university student, also working as a teaching artist in Atlanta, GA. She has served as one of Atlanta’s Youth Poet Laureate Ambassadors since 2017, and has competed in the international poetry slam competition Brave New Voices. She is currently working on releasing a collection of poems. Stay up to date with her @LailaSokera

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Kimberly Casey- SOREN LIT FALL ISSUE 2021

Kimberly Casey was born and raised in Massachusetts, though she now calls Huntsville, Alabama home. She is the Founder and President of Out Loud Huntsville, a nonprofit organization dedicated to inspiring community outreach and activism through written and spoken word. Kimberly has competed at Southern Fried Poetry Slam, CUPSI, Texas Grand Slam, and performed at venues across the country.She received her MFA from Pacific University in 2021. She is the Poetry Editor of Passengers Journal. Her first full-length collection, Where the Water Begins, will be released in September 2021 through Riot in Your Throat press. Find more information on the author at kimberlycpoetry.com

SOREN LIT FOUNDING EDITOR & PODCAST HOST: MELODIE J. RODGERS

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SOREN LIT is a Southern Renaissance of women, femmes, and/or non-binary writers exploring the lingering south...