Kristiana Rae Colón is a poet, playwright, actor, educator, producer, curator, creator of #BlackSexMatters, co-founder of the #LetUsBreathe Collective, and Writer/Producer on Showtime’s hit series The Chi. Her plays have been produced in London, New York, Chicago, and across the US. Kristiana's collection of poems promised instruments was the winner of the inaugural Drinking Gourd Poetry Prize and published by Northwestern University Press and her play Tilikum is the winner of a Joseph Jefferson Award for Best New Play. Kristiana's published plays include Octagon and but i cd only whisper. She appeared on the fifth season of HBO's Def Poetry Jam. Kristiana writes, produces, and organizes to cast spells for embodiment of our liberated futures.
