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The Folger is closing at 4:30pm on Sunday, February 23, for a staff training exercise. Normal hours will resume when the Folger opens on Tuesday, February 25, at 11:00am.

Tafisha A. Edwards

Tafisha A. Edwards is a poet, professor and cultural critic. Her chapbooks include: In the Belly of the Mirror (Telemagenta Press, 2021) and The Bloodlet (Phantom Books, 2016), winner of the Breitling Chapbook Prize. She is the winner of a 2022 Maryland State Artist Award. Her poems, essays and columns have appeared in The Volta, The Baltimore Fishbowl, Kweli Journal, The Georgia Review, Apogee Journal, Poetry Northwest, Washington Square Review and multiple others. Edwards graduated from University of Baltimore’s MFA program and currently teaches at Goucher College.