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Stephani Maari Booker, writer, editor and owner of Athena Persephoni Publications, writes prose and poetry for the page and for performance in which she wrestles with her multiple marginalized identities: African American, lesbian, lower-class, nerdy and sexy. She holds an MFA from Hamline University of St. Paul, MN and is a past editor and current contributing editor/writer for the African American newspaper Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder.
Journals that have published her creative work include Minnesota Women's Press (womenspress.com), Red Planet (www.redplanetmagazine.com), Astral Waters Review (www.astralwatersreview.com), Wanderlust (www.wanderlust-journal.com), Rigorous (www.rigorous-mag.com), Aphelion Webzine (www.aphelion-webzine.com), Lavender Review (www.lavrev.net), Serendipity (http://serendipitylitmag.org), Off the Coast (www.offthecoastmag.com), Adrienne: A Poetry Journal of Queer Women (http://siblingrivalrypress.com/adrienne), The Voices Project (www.thevoicesproject.org), Cactus Heart (www.cactusheartpress.com), Skin to Skin (http://s2skin.com), phati'tude Literary Magazine (phatitude.org) and Pittsburgh Flash Fiction Gazette (http://pittsburghflashfictiongazette.net).
Anthologies and collections that feature her work include Best Lesbian Erotica of the Year: Vol. 6 (Sinclair Sexsmith, editor; Cleis Press, 2022), Queer Voices: Poetry, Prose, and Pride (Andrea Jenkins, John Medeiros and Lisa Marie Brimmer, editors; Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2019), Owning It: Embracing Our Bodies, Sexuality, and Power edited by Rhiannon Rhys-Jones, Sienna Saint-Cyr & S.B. Roark (SinCyrPublishing.com, 2018); The Future of Us: An Anthology edited by Charlotte Bailey & Florence Okoye (https://issuu.com/afrofutures_uk, 2016); Jalada 02: Afrofuture(s) (http://jaladaafrica.org, 2015), Queenies, Fades, Blunts: A Zine (The Lonely Londoners, 2014, www.facebook.com/thelonelylondoners); Coming Together: Girl on Girl (EroticAnthology.org, 2013); 60 Seconds to Shine: 221 One-minute Monologues for Women (Monologue Audition Series, Volume 2) edited by John Capecci and Irene Ziegler Aston (Smith & Kraus Inc., 2006); and Longing, Lust, and Love: Black Lesbian Stories edited by Shonia L. Brown (Nghosi Books, 2006).
She has also performed most recently for "Controlled Burn - Queer Performance for a World on Fire!" presented by 20% Theatre Company at Phoenix Theater, "Revolutionary Jetpacks: Reclaiming the Future(s)" prese...
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