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Sheree L. Greer is a Black, queer writer and artist born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. A memoir essayist, poet, fiction, and nonfiction writer, her work explores sexuality, race, class, family, radical self-love, and how places can shape and shift identities. Her work has been published online and in print at the Massachusetts Review, The Rumpus, Fourth Genre, Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora, Burrow Press Review, and others. In 2014, she founded Kitchen Table Literary Arts to showcase and support the work of women and femme-identified nonbinary writers and poets of the global majority. Sheree is a VONA/VOICES alum, Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice grantee, Yaddo fellow, Ragdale Artist House Rubin Fellow, Barbara Deming Memorial Fund grantee in Nonfiction, and upcoming Lost and Found Lab fellow. Her essay, “Bars” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and notably named in Best American Essays 2019, and her latest Pushcart Prize nominated work, “If You Scared Say You Scared,” was published in Bellevue Literary Review. A frequent collaborator with the 2nd Story Theatre Collective and teaching artist for Story Studio in Chicago and The Porch in Nashville, Sheree is a founding member of the southern arts collective, The Rubber Bands, Sheree also curates an annual arts exhibition at the intersection of visual, performing, and literary art. A 2026 Writing Freedom Fellow, Sheree is currently at work on her memoir-in- essays and lives in Tampa, Florida, with her wife and daughter.

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