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Documenting the grit and the sweetness, fiction and nonfiction, here and elsewhere into a futurist tapestry of diasporic love, community, and connection.

Ra’Niqua Lee, PhD (she/they) uses storytelling as a unifying force for good. She is a 2024 NEA fellow. She does social justice work in Atlanta, and she believes that storytelling—defined broadly as written, spoken, and lived—is a key part of making the world a better place! Beyond writing, examples of her storytelling praxis are teaching, gardening, cooking, and cosplaying.

Ra’Niqua has a doctorate from Emory and an MFA from Georgia State. She received a bachelors in English with a creative writing concentration from the University of West Georgia. Assistant editor for the Loveliest Review, her words have also appeared in dozens of journals and have been anthologized in Infinite Constellations: An Anthology of Identity, Culture, and Speculative Conjunctions (University of Alabama Press), Best of the Net, and Best Small Fictions. She has attended Tin House and Kenyon Review Summer Workshops. The Georgia Writer’s Association awarded her the inaugural John Lewis Writing Grant for fiction in 2021. She is an ATLien by birth and mother to magical twins.

Every word is in honor of her little sister, Nesha, who battled schizoaffective disorder until the very end. For her, always.