Lita Hooper

associate professor, English, Georgia Perimeter College

Lita Hooper is a poet, photographer, film producer and educator. Her work has appeared in several anthologies, including Crux: Conversations in Words and Images from South Africa to South USA, The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South, Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem First Decade, Role Call: A Generational Anthology of Social and Political Black Literature and Art, and Tempu Tumpu/walking Naked: African Women's Poetic Self-portrait. She is the author of two chapbooks, Legacy and The Journal of Sojourner Truth, and a critical biography, Art of Work: The Art and Work of Haki Madhubuti. Her work has also been published in online and print journals and magazines, including poetrymidwest, Drumvoices Revue, Essence Magazine and Pluck!