Creativity Is Who We Are
I believe Healing Is A Creative Practice. As an artist, I know the importance of having space to discuss and reflect on self as an artist. Healing, requires creativity and flexibility. As an artist, who has invested a lot of love and time into my healing, I desire to share my lessons and gifts with those who might need or benefit. As a freelance writer/editor, communicating your ideas and ideals with clarity and passion is a delicate balance. I offer works that center healing, arts and activism to individuals and groups. EGBERI, founded in 2022, is the organizational umbrella under which I offer workshops, writing, editing, and proofreading services and project management services.
BIO
Yvonne Onakeme Etaghene is an Ijaw and Urhobo Nigerian dyke poet, performer, author, dancer, playwright, visual artist, filmmaker, and fashion designer. Etaghene has taught writing, editing and public speaking in community spaces and at colleges and universities throughout the U.S., Canada, Nigeria and South Africa.
Her poetry, fiction and essays have been published in journals, magazines, zines, anthologies and chapbooks. Her latest collection of poetry, I DO METAPHORS, is a passionate, brave, unflinching exploration of the most vulnerable and powerful parts of us. Yvonne is the author of For Sizakele, a novel published in 2015 that addresses African lesbian/bisexual identity, love, intimate partner violence, and gender. In 2015, she was awarded the Joseph Henry Jackson Award in short story fiction by the San Francisco Foundation. From 2021 to 2023, Etaghene was a Svane Family Foundation Inaugural Artist in Headlands Center for the Arts’ Bay Area Fellowship Program. In 2023, she was honored as a Creative West Artist Fund Awardee.
Etaghene received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Oberlin College, a Master of Arts degree from New York University, and a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Antioch University, Los Angeles.
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