Tafisha
Edwards
Writes

TAFISHA A. EDWARDS is author of two chapbooks: In the Belly of the Mirror and The Bloodlet (Phantom Books, 2016), winner of the Breitling Chapbook Prize. She is the recipient of a 2022 Maryland State Arts Council Independent Artist Award and a 2021 Rubys Artist Grant from the Robert Deutsch Foundation. She has received fellowships from The Cave Canem Foundation and the Vermont Studio Center. She served as a judge of The Art Club of Washington’s 2025 Marfield Prize for Outstanding Writing in The Arts.

Her poetry has appeared in Not Without Our Laughter: Poems of Humor, Joy & Sexuality (Mason Jar Press, 2017), Bettering American Poetry Volume 2 (Bettering Books, 2017),The Georgia Review, Apogee Journal, Poetry Northwest, Jellyfish Magazine, Washington Square Review, Winter Tangerine and other print and online publications. Her newest works will be published in Bmore Art’s forthcoming collection of poetry and photography: In Light and Verse (BMore Art, 2026).

Her interviews, essays, and other works have appeared in Kweli Journal, The Baltimore Fishbowl, TIDAL, INSTYLE, VICE, The PBS Black Culture Connection, and other print and online publications.

She holds an MFA in Creative Writing and Publishing Arts from the University of Baltimore and a BA in Journalism from the University of Maryland College Park’s Philip Merrill College of Journalism.