The Body Has Memories

Adrienne Danyelle Oliver is a poet-educator, hip-hop scholar from Little Rock, AR currently living in the SF Bay Area. Her previous work has appeared in Storytelling, Self & Society (Wayne State University Press, 2018), Patrice Lumumba: An Anthology of Writers on Black Liberation (Nomadic Press, 2021) and Write Now! SF Bay's Anthology Essential Truths: The Bay Area in Color (Pease Press, 2021). Adrienne enjoys writing about intergenerational healing. She has two chapbooks, collective madness (Finishing Line Press) and The Body Has Memories (Nomadic Press) forthcoming in 2022 that explore this theme. Some of Adrienne's favorite authors include Maya Angelou and Toni Morrison. When she is not writing, Adrienne is reading or watching documentaries. She also leads a monthly healing writing circle for Black women.