Shonda Buchanan
American poet and memoirist (born 1968)
Summary
Shonda Buchanan is an American poet, memoirist, and academic whose work centers on race, identity, migration, and the intersections of African American and Native American experience. She is an associate professor of English at Western Michigan University, where she teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing, and is on the MFA faculty at Alma College. She is also the founding literary editor of Harriet Tubman Press and a consulting curator poet for The Broad.
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Create article: American poet, memoirist, and academic; author of ''Black Indian'' (2019). 12 refs from Poetry Foundation, Kirkus, LARB, PBS NewsHour, WSU Press, WMU faculty profile.
