giovanni singleton is the author of Ascension, informed by the life and work of Alice Coltrane, which won the California Book Award Gold Medal and AMERICAN LETTERS: works on paper, a collection of visual art and poetry. Her writing has also been exhibited in the Smithsonian Institute’s American Jazz Museum, Oakland's Digital Literature Garden, San Francisco’s first Visual Poetry and Performance Festival, on the building of Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and the Poetry Center at the University of Arizona. Founding editor of nocturnes (re)view of the literary arts, singleton is the recipient of the African American Literature and Culture Society’s Stephen E. Henderson Award for Outstanding Achievement in Poetry. She was the 2017-18 Holloway Lecturer in Poetry at the University of California, Berkeley where for ten years she coordinated the monthly Lunch Poems reading series. Her dreamography is forthcoming from Noemi Press.