Christa
Bell is a writer, poet, spoken word artist, and cultural activist from Seattle,
Washington who received her BA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State
University, has studied in Europe and lived in east Africa. She writes, performs
and curates arts events throughout the Northwest, where she is also a competitive
performance poet and founder of the Healing Is A Political Act (HIAPA) Creative
Recovery Workshop Series.
She is a member of the 2004 Seattle Poetry Slam National Team and the author
of two self-published and highly acclaimed chapbooks of prose and performance
poetry entitled, "Revival" and "Arise My Beautiful One, Come
With Me", both of which explore the inner lives of Black women as relates
to romantic archetypes, sexual freedom and self-worship. She is also the creatrix
and producer of a live spoken word poetry CD entitled Word Medicine 2004:
The Live Recorded Poetry of Christa Bell.
Her current projects include a memoir entitled 56:Memoir of a Black Girls
Sexual Coming of Age and an as yet untitled novel that explores the psychic
effects of post-traumatic stress disorder caused by the Middle Passage and
Slavery as it relates to modern African-American Women.
Watch www.christabellonline.com
for Word Medicine, the Tour coming in the spring of 2005!
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