Poet
Remica Bingham-Risher, a native of Phoenix, Arizona, is an alumna of Old Dominion University and Bennington College. She is a Cave Canem fellow and Affrilachian Poet. Among other journals, her work has been published in the New York Times, The Writer’s Chronicle, New Letters, Callaloo and Essence. She is the author of Conversion (Lotus, 2006) winner of the Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award, What We Ask of Flesh (Etruscan, 2013) shortlisted for the Hurston/Wright Award, and Starlight & Error (Diode, 2017) winner of the Diode Editions Book Award. Her newest work, and first book of prose, Soul Culture: Black Poets, Books and Questions that Grew Me Up, will be published by Beacon Press in 2022. She is currently the Director of Quality Enhancement Plan Initiatives at Old Dominion University and resides in Norfolk, VA with her husband and children. https://www.remicabinghamrisher.com/
Document Type
Flash Interview
Publication Date
2-2022
Repository Citation
Bingham-Risher, Remica, "Remica Bingham-Risher" (2022). Black History Month 2022: Flash Interviews. 2.
https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/poetryspotlight-feb2022/2