47th Annual Literary Festival at ODU: October 6-11, 2024
Yalie Saweda Kamara: 47th Annual ODU Literary Festival
Document Type
Featured Participant
Festival Date
10-8-2024
Location
University Theatre, Old Dominion University
Author/Artist Bio
Yalie Saweda Kamara is a Sierra Leonean-American writer, educator, and researcher from Oakland, California. Kamara is the current Cincinnati and Mercantile Library Poet Laureate and a 2023 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow. She is the author of the full-length collection Besaydoo (Milkweed Editions, 2024), winner of 2022-2023 Jake Adam York Prize. She is also the author of the chapbooks A Brief Biography of My Name (Akashic Books/African Poetry Book Fund, 2018) and When The Living Sing (Ledge Mule Press, 2017) and editor of the anthology What You Need to Know About Me: Young Writers on Their Experience of Immigration (The Hawkins Project, 2022). Kamara earned a PhD in Creative Writing and English Literature from the University of Cincinnati. She is an assistant professor of English at Xavier University and resides in Cincinnati.
Description
The reading took place on Tuesday, October 8, 2024, at 4 p.m. in the University Theatre at Old Dominion University.
Recommended Citation
Kamara, Yalie Saweda, "Yalie Saweda Kamara: 47th Annual ODU Literary Festival" (2024). 47th Annual Literary Festival at ODU: October 6-11, 2024. 2.
https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/litfest-2024/2