Akilah Oliver
Course Studies, University of California, Berkeley
BA, New College of California
Akilah Oliver is a poet and performance artist. Her most recent publications are the chapbooks “a(A)ugust” (Yo-Yo Labs Portable Press, 2007), “The Putterer’s Notebook” (Belladonna, 2006), and "An Arriving Guard of Angels, Thusly Coming to Greet" (Farfalla Press, 2004). She is also the author of the she said dialogues: flesh memory, a book of experimental prose poetry honored by the PEN American Center’s “Open Book” program. She has read and performed her work throughout the country as a solo artist and as a founding member of the post-feminist performance arts collective, Sacred Naked Nature Girls. She has been artist in residence at Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center in Los Angeles, and has received grants from the California Arts Council, The Flintridge Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation. She is former faculty at the University of Colorado, Boulder where she taught research writing.
