Develyn Biagas: a longtime educator and youth advocate now working on her PhD, with a specialty focus area of African-American girls and the school to prison pipeline. She also works in young adult literature and plans to publish her first Young Adult novel soon. I am happy girls she works with now have someone like her to look up to.
Category: From Kalisha
Solemn started with the trees…
I'm grateful for all the readers, excitement and events for my third novel, SOLEMN. On the book's 1st Birthday, I reflect on how it all began...
A Powerful 2017 For Us All…
We can all magnify our voices this year, to make some serious contributions and change some lives. I hope you take your ideas and visions- a new business, more love in your relationships, superior health, more education- to new heights.
A Solemn Summer…
I hope, as this summer played out and I was blessed with many beautiful experiences from SOLEMN, my elders were looking down smiling and watching and knowing how much I appreciated their influence in my life, to bring me the opportunities they dreamed their hard work and sacrifices would yield for others.
My tribute to my Grandma Vanilla at her homegoing…
This woman is the strongest example of power and sacrifice to higher purposes I have ever known up close and personal. She shows us life lived to maximum potential, and inspires us all to the same.
April in Harlem….
God is good...I have to truly say this was probably my best birthday month ever, starting with friends in Chicago and going to beautiful life in Harlem, NY.
Kalisha Buckhanon
My friend Erika Rose gave me my first ever "fun" interview on her blog "Word Crafting Me." We go way back...like, way back to bobby pins and ponytails and crushes and mythology exams and... So read if you dare find out I'm not nearly as serious as I know I look. Have negression waiting in … Continue reading Kalisha Buckhanon
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