BIO

Kelli Stevens Kane is a poet, playwright, oral historian, and accountant.

Kane is a Cave Canem Fellow, an August Wilson Center Fellow, and a recipient of Advancing Black Arts in Pittsburgh grants from The Pittsburgh Foundation.

She's studied at VONA, Hurston/Wright, and Callaloo. She's read her poetry and oral history, and performed her one woman show, Big George, nationally.

Kane’s work has appeared in North American Review, Little Patuxent Review, Under a Warm Green Linden, Painted Bride Quarterly, African Voices, and Split This Rock.