Giovanni Singleton

giovanni singleton’s debut poetry collection, “Ascension,” informed by the music and life of Alice Coltrane, received the 81st California Book Award Gold Medal for poetry. She is the founding editor of nocturnes (re)view of the literary arts, a journal committed to experimental work of the African Diaspora and other contested spaces archived in UC Berkeley’s Bancroft Library. Her work has appeared on the building of Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and in Zen Monster, Inquiring Mind, “Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry,” “I’ll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women,” “Kindergarde: Avant-Garde Poems, Plays, & Stories for Children,” and “The Ecopoetry Anthology.” Her poems have appeared recently in “Best American Experimental Writing,” “What I Say: Innovative Poetry by Black Writers in America,” Volt, and “Hick Poetics: An Anthology of Contemporary Rural American Poetry.” Singleton has taught in museums, at California Institute of the Arts, Saint Mary’s College, Naropa University, and throughout the Bay Area as a California Poet in the Schools. She coordinates the Lunch Poems series at UC Berkeley and is the 2014-15 Visiting Writer-in-Residence at Sonoma State University.