From The Homan Square Project

From The Homan Square Project

by Jada Renée Allen

Jada Renée Allen is a writer, educator, and culture worker from South Side Chicago. She is the recipient of support from Tin House, The Kenyon Review  Writers Workshop, Community of Writers, The Frost Place, and Voices of Our  Nations Arts Foundation. Her writing appears or is forthcoming in Academy of  American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, Callaloo, Chicago Reader, Gulf Coast, Hayden’s  Ferry Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. She is the founding  executive director of The Frances Thompson Arts Foundation and editor-in-chief  of Bodemé. Allen lives in Phoenix, Arizona, on U.S.-occupied Yavapai, O’odham,  and Hohokam territorial bodies.