Taiyon J. Coleman

Taiyon J. Coleman is a poet, writer, and educator whose work has been anthologized widely. She is the author of Traveling without Moving: Essays from a Black Woman Trying to Survive in America (University of Minnesota Press, 2024). A Cave Canem and VONA fellow, she is a 2017 recipient of a McKnight Fellowship for Writers in Creative Prose and was one of twelve emerging children’s writers of color selected as a recipient of the 2018–2019 Mirrors and Windows Fellowship funded by the Loft Literary Center and the Jerome Foundation in Minnesota. After many years as an associate professor of English and women’s studies at St. Catherine University in St. Paul, Minnesota, she is currently dean of liberal arts and academic foundations at North Hennepin Community College in Brooklyn Park, MN.