Everything is necessary - keisha gaye anderson

Anderson, Keisha Gaye: - Keisha-Gaye Anderson is a Jamaican-born poet, creative writer, visual artist, and media professional.

She is the author of the poetry collection Gathering the Waters (Jamii Publishing 2014).

Her writing has appeared in such publications as Kweli Journal, Small Axe Salon, Renaissance Noire, Killens Review of Arts and Letters, Mosaic Literary Magazine, African Voices Magazine, Streetnotes: Cross Cultural Poetics, Caribbean in Transit Arts Journal, The Mom Egg Review, and many others.

She is a past participant of the VONA Voices and Callaloo Creative Writing workshops, and was a fellow at the North Country Institute for Writers of Color.

Keisha has also been shortlisted for the Small Axe Literary Competition.

She was selected as a 2018 Brooklyn Public Library Artist in Residence.

Keisha holds an M.

in creative writing from The City College, CUNY.