Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie

Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie is the author of the award-winning children’s book Layla’s Happiness (Enchanted Lion Books).  Her work for adults includes Strut (Agape Editions), Dear Continuum: Letters to a Poet Crafting Liberation (Grand Concourse Press), and Karma’s Footsteps (Flipped Eye Publishing). Tallie is the subject of the short film “I Leave My Colors Everywhere.”

Ekere creates cinepoems with her husband and self-care posters and healing herbal potions with her daughters. She has a long-quiet blog The Sage Honey that she looks forward to updating soon. Ekere is a (very) proud New Yorker currently living in the lovely state of Rhode Island where she is a Ph.D. student at Brown University.