A Ghanaian-American poet and Black Classicist from the Bronx, NY, Stephanie Dinsae is a 2019 Smith College graduate and has received a Master of Fine Arts in Poetry and Literary Translation from Columbia University's School of the Arts. She often writes poetry about myth as it relates to Blackness and her own life, video games, friendship, and the fallibility/flexibility of memory. In 2021, Stephanie was named Poetry Winner of the Disquiet Literary Prize and published her prize-winning poem "Dey" in The Common's 22nd issue. Stephanie was also named one of six 2021 Bronx Poet Laureate finalists. Currently, she is published in hex, Cartridge Lit, Exposed Brick Literary Mag, Dipity Literary Magazine, Burrow Press Review, BRINK, and recently published her debut lyrical essay in ANMLY. You can find more of her work in PERSONAL PUBLICATIONS under the WORK tab and on Instagram @writesumdinsightful, located for ease in the top left corner of this page.

You can find her CV here.

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