Chantel Massey

Chantel Massey (she/her) is a poet, author, teaching artist, and anime lover based in Indiana. Massey has received fellowship and retreat invites from Wintertangerine, Open Mouth Poetry, and The Watering Hole. She is a 2019 Best of Net Award nominee and 2020 Indiana Eugene and Marilyn Glick Author Awards Emerging Author finalist for her first collection of poetry, Bursting At The Seams  (VK Press, 2018). Massey founded the UnLearn Arts literary arts organization, serving to inspire writers through a Black classic and contemporary arts-centered curriculum. When she’s not writing, she is hanging with loved ones and her fur baby, Bella.