GCSU Creative Writing Program's Visiting Writers Series: Visiting Writer and MFA alumna Denechia Powell-Ingabire, 6:30-7:30 p.m., Museum Education Room

GCSU Creative Writing Program's Visiting Writers Series: Visiting Writer and MFA alumna Denechia Powell-Ingabire, '22 
Nov. 20 from 6:30 until 7:30 p.m.
Pat Peterson Museum Education Room

Denechia “Neesha” Powell-Ingabire is a coastal Georgia-born-and-raised movement journalist, essayist and community and cultural organizer living in Atlanta/occupied Muscogee territory. She reports on the justice movements of the Black, queer and trans communities to which she belongs and writes essays to recover her own history and the histories of her ancestors and their ancestral homes.

Powell-Ingabire's writings have been published in various online and print publications, including Harper’s Bazaar, the Oxford American, Scalawag and VICE. She recently graduated with a MFA in creative writing from Georgia College. Her forthcoming debut book, "Come By Here: A Memoir in Essays from Georgia’s Geechee Coast" (Hub City Press, out on Sept. 24, 2024), chips away at coastal Georgia’s facade of beaches and golden marshes to recover undertold Black history alongside personal and family stories. The book traces a genealogy of systemic racial violence while paying homage to the area’s long history of Black resistance and culture keeping.