BRM Author Talk #3 with Dr. Nubia Kai

2022 marks the 42nd annual celebration of “September is Black Reading Month.”
The annual observance encourages members of the Black community to read books,
magazines and journals written by Black authors as a way of deepening our understanding of our history, culture and the wisdom that has evolved from that culture. The idea is to develop a habit during September that will carry on through the rest of the year.
For the third year Malik Yakini, one of the co-founders of Black Reading Month will present a weekly series of Author Talks in which important Black authors will be interviewed about their craft, challenges, aspirations and insights. This year the Author Talks on September 14th and 28th will be hosted by scholar/activist Michael Simanga, Ph.D.
Nubia Kai received a B.A. degree in Anthropology and Black Studies(Wayne State University), a M.A. degree in African Languages and Literature(University of Wisconsin), and a Ph.D. in African Literature and Film(Howard University). A poet, playwright, storyteller, and novelist, she has won numerous awards for her writing, including three Michigan Council for the Arts Awards, five D.C. Commission on the Arts Awards, two National Endowment for the Arts Awards, and the Larry Neal Writer’s Competition for Poetry. She has been published in periodicals and several other journals and anthologies. She has published two collections of poetry. Her plays have been produced at theatres across the country. She has taught at George Washington University and was an assistant professor at Howard University’s Department of Theatre Arts and an adjunct professor at University of Maryland-Baltimore’s Africana Studies Department.