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.CHISARAOKWU. (she/her) is a 2025 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow and Igbo American transdisciplinary poet artist, writer, scholar, and performer. Inspired by Igbo tradition, quantum physics, medical science, and the natural world, her work weaves images and text into poetry that explores memory, grief, and joy. She has received fellowship support from The Poetry Foundation and MacDowell, The California Arts Council, Cave Canem, Headlands Center for the Arts, the Vermont Studio Center, among other honors. Her chapbook, This Wake Holding, Mmiri, received the 2023 Evaristo Poetry Prize’s Honorable Mention from the African Poetry Book Fund.
Her most recent work appears in ANMLY, Michigan Quarterly Review, Indiana Review, and Hayden's Ferry Review. A pediatrician, she earned her MD from Duke University and BA from Stanford University. In addition to health and executive consulting and coaching, she facilitates creative writing workshops, and gives talks and presentations worldwide. She is working on two full-length poetry collections and a novel.
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