Latorial Faison

LATORIAL FAISON, BA, MA, EdD, is the author of forthcoming poetry collection, Nursery Rhymes in Black (University of Alaska Press, 2024), and other notable poetry collections, Mother to Son (2017), Amazon Kindle best-sellers, LOVE POEMS, 28 Days of Poetry Celebrating Black History Volumes 1-3, flesh, I AM WOMAN, Secrets of My Soul, Immaculate Perceptions, children's books, 100 Poems You Can Write and Kendall's Golf Lesson. Faison's work has been accepted for publication by Artemis Journal, RHINO, Prairie Schooner, PENUMBRA, West Trestle Review, Solstice Literary Magazine, Crab Orchard Review, Deep South Magazine, Stonecoast Review, Typishly Literary Magazine, About Place Journal, Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora, Kalyani Magazine, Black Girl Seeks, The Chattahoochee Review, Virginia's Best Emerging Poets 2019, Blackberry, and Mandala Journal.

Faison's creative nonfiction has been featured in the NAACP Image Award winner, Keeping the Faith: Stories of Love, Courage, Healing, and Hope from Black America. Additionally, she has collaborative work in Electronic Corpse: Poems from a Digital Salon edited by M. Ayodele Heath and the Forging Freedom anthologies. Other publishing credits include The Southern Poetry Anthology IX: Virginia, Virginia Best Emerging Poets, The Poetry Society of Virginia's 80th Anniversary Anthology, Poetic Gumbo, THE PATH, Hurricane Katrina Couldn't Break Us, and The Voices Project. Faison's poems have also appeared in BET's Digital Drum, Chickenbones, Southern Women's Review, Deep South Magazine, Poetry Quarterly, in multicultural romance novelist JJ Murray's book, Original Love, and in Three Minus One (inspired by the film Return to Zero with Sean Hanish and Brooke Warner). Some of Faison's most notable poems have been adapted for the stage and performed by students, performance poets, and spoken word artists. Faison is the author of two limited edition chapbooks, Poetically Speaking (2001) and Realities (2004).

Additionally, FAISON has edited a teen chapbook (Black Achievers, 2010) as well as two junior writing anthologies, one fiction (Walton, 2009) and one poetry (Poems from the Eagle's Nest, 2008) in her pursuits of volunteerism and promotion of the arts in local schools and community. Most recently, Faison has published historical research in education, The Missed Education of the Negro: An Examination of the Black Segregated Education Experience in Southampton County, VA 1950-1970 available at Barnes & Noble and Amazon.

WRITERS RETREATS, CONFERENCES & SEMINARS: James Arthur Baldwin Symposium (JABIS), The Poetry Society of Virginia (PSV) Festival, The 1455 Story Festival, Jackson State University Phillis Wheatley Writing Festival, Virginia Association of Teachers of English (VATE) Conference, Women Education Leaders in Virginia (WELV), JMU Furious Flower Poetry Center, Hurston/Wright Foundation Workshops, Medgar Evers College of CUNY Center for Black Literature, ASALH, Wintergreen Women Writers, Women in Bloom Poetry Salon, The Watering Hole, CAVE CANEM, Baltimore's CityLit Festival & Writing Seminars, Paine College's Centennial Reflections on the Harlem Renaissance, ODU Literary Festival, Library of Congress National Book Festival, Virginia Festival of the Book, PBS, Yale University, Girl Trek, The Zinn Project, Teach for Change, Insider Higher Education, Sigma Tau Delta, AERA, AESA, Blue Ridge Writers Collective, VEA Educators of Color Summit, Military Child Education Coalition (MCEC), College Language Association (CLA)