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april joseph

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WITS Program Manager

Pronouns: she/they

april joseph is a poet, book coach, and educator. At Literary Arts she is the Writers in the Schools Program Manager and works with the Youth Programs team to support writers and students. Collaborative, student-centered, process-oriented learning inspires her to teach artistic expression to transform lives, to be free. She earned her MFA in Writing and Poetics from Naropa University and her BA in Literatures of the World from the University of California, San Diego. Her poetics center around healing ancestry and have appeared in literary journals and anthologies (*apo-press, Bombay Gin, Morning/Mourning, and TAYO). 

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