
Asani Charles, Choctaw/Chickasaw/African American, begins her days with the ringing of a school bell. She is a high school English teacher who enjoys teaching post-modernism and Multicultural Literature. After a lifetime in their native Southern California, Asani and her family moved cross-country to Dallas, Texas, where she spends her weekends listening to American Indian radio and watching college softball. Her poetry has appeared in Yellow Medicine Review, Love You Madly; Poetry about Jazz, Indian Country Today, and the critically acclaimed Sing: Poetry from the Indigenous Americas. She is the author of Wordsongs for Grandmas.
Email: homalosa@yahoo.com
BlueSky: @asanicharles.bsky.social