Rasheena Fountain is an essayist and poet from Chicago’s west side. She has been published in Hobart, Penumbra Online, Jelly Bucket, The Roadrunner Review, Crazyhorse, You Are Here: The Journal of Creative Geography, and more. Fountain received a 2021 Honorable Mention from the Trillium Arts “Miss Sarah” Fellowship for Black Women Writers. Fountain earned a M.A.Ed. in Urban Environmental Education from Antioch University Seattle and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Washington Seattle, where she is currently a Ph.D. student in English. She is working on a multi-genre memoir about nature, environmental justice, decolonization, land, and Blackness.
