Sasha Banks is a Pushcart nominated-poet whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in Apogee, PBS Newshour, SRPR (Spoon River Poetry Review), FANZINE, Poor Claudia, RHINO, B O D Y Literature, The Collagist, and Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora. Banks is the creator of Poets for Ferguson. She received her MFA at Pratt Institute, lives in Dallas, and is a Rhode Island Writers Colony fellow. america, MINE is her first book.