adrienne danyelle oliver
adrienne danyelle oliver, MFA, EdD, is a poet-educator, hip-hop scholar from Little Rock, AR currently living in the SF Bay Area. Her previous work has appeared in Storytelling, Self & Society (Wayne State University Press 2018) and The Museum of African American Diaspora’s poet corner. A Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation (VONA) alumna, Adrienne enjoys writing about intergenerational healing and 1930s era history leading up to the civil rights era. Some of Adrienne’s favorite authors include Gloria Naylor, Tyembia Jess, Toni Morrison and Harryette Mullen. When she is not writing, Adrienne is reading or watching documentaries. She also leads a monthly writing and healing circle for Black women.
Projects
Black Gold Storytellers
In the spirit of Isabel Wilkerson's groundbreaking book The Warmth of Other Suns, Bay Area storytellers share the migration stories of Black elders who migra…
Arts & Culture
PATRICE LUMBA (An Anthology of Writers on Black Liberation)
An Anthology of Writers on Black Liberation
Literary Arts
collective madness
collective madness (Finishing Line Press, 2022) is a chapbook featuring poems about my journey with fibroid tumors at the intersection of racial battle fatig…
Literary Arts, Social Justice
the body has memories
from the editor: the body has memories (Nomadic Press, 2022)...gives voice to...becoming the whole self. ....oliver is very aware that the act of rememberin…
Literary Arts
Contributions
Trauma, Tresses, & Truth: Untangling Our Hair Through Personal Narrative
TT&T is an anthology of African American & Afro Latina authors relating their true, often shocking encounters while wearing natural hair (Chicago Review Pres…
Essential Truths: The Bay Area in Color
130 writers and artists respond to the unprecedented uncertainty of our times with prose, poetry, and visual art reflecting their Bay Area realities as Black…
Skills
Arts & Culture
FocusArts Education, Artist Programs, Community EngagementLiterary Arts
FocusEditing, Writing, Event Organizing, Performance & Reading, TeachingGenresFree Verse Poetry, Experimental Poetry, Prose Poetry, Spoken Word, Historical Fiction, Afrofuturism, Memoir, Education, Health & Wellness, Personal Development, Social Justice, TravelEducation
FocusActivism & Advocacy, Community & Engagement, Education Leadership, Educational Technology, Arts Pedagogy, Writing & Literature Pedagogy, Humanities Pedagogy, Language Pedagogy, Music Pedagogy, ResearchTypesHigher Education, Inquiry-Based Learning, Student Centered, Critical Pedagogy, Anti-Bias CurriculumSocial Justice
FocusEducation, Programs & ServicesTopicsEducation Reform, Gender & Sexuality, Children & Youth, Racial Justice