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Mariahadessa Ekere\u00a0Tallie<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0(MFA Mills College, Ph.D. Brown) is an interdisciplinary artist, poet, and scholar.<\/span><\/p>\n

Tallie is the author of\u00a0We Go Slow\u00a0<\/i>(Atheneum Books for Young Readers)\u00a0 which was chosen as a New York Public Library Best Book of 2025, a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection, and an NCTE Charlotte Huck Recommended Book. She is also the author of\u00a0the Ezra Jack Keats Honor-winning children\u2019s book <\/span>Layla\u2019s Happiness<\/span><\/i> (Enchanted Lion Books), <\/span>the poetry collections <\/span>Strut <\/span><\/i>(Agape Editions), <\/span>Karma\u2019s Footsteps<\/span><\/i> (Flipped Eye), and the epistolary work <\/span>Dear Continuum:Letters to a Poet Crafting Liberation <\/span><\/i>(Grand Concourse Press).\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n

She and photographer Dominique Sindayiganza were recipients of an IGNITE Selection Award at the 4<\/span>th<\/span> International Eco Performance Film Festival for their cinepoem <\/span>Barefoot Stroll.<\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/span>Tallie\u2019s poetry is the subject of the film \u201c<\/span>I Leave My Colors Everywhere<\/span><\/a>.\u201d She is also featured in \u201c<\/span>Tell Me Another Story<\/span><\/a>\u201d a film about the importance of inclusivity in children\u2019s literature.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Her first academic publication, <\/span>The Unwieldy Otherwise: Rethinking the Roots of Performance Studies in and through the Black Freedom Struggle<\/span><\/a> co-authored with Leon Hilton was published in the journal Performance Matters.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Tallie is the mother of three galaxies who look like daughters.<\/span><\/p>\n

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