Kisha Nicole Foster lives in Cleveland, and is the recipient of the 2019 Cleveland Arts Prize for Emerging Artist in Literature. Foster is an alumnus of Cleveland State University-BA English, and holds an MFA in Poetry from the University of Nebraska-Omaha. Foster is the author of Poems: 1999-2014 and Bloodwork (Outlandish Press). Her work has appeared in Black in the Middle – An Anthology of the Black Midwest (Belt Publishing). Foster’s poems are celebrated as public art on buildings in Cleveland with gratitude to her partnership with Building Bridges Arts Collective. They are located in Cleveland and reside at the Oriana Houses’ Community Based Correctional Facility building on East 55th and their headquarters on Hough. Her spoken word album BLK (black) Earth: SPK (speak) Poems can be found on Bandcamp. Foster is currently a Room in the House Fellow at Karamu House.