Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie is an interdisciplinary artist, curator, and a PhD candidate in the Theatre Arts and Performance Studies program at Brown University. She is the author of the award-winning children’s book Layla’s Happiness(Enchanted Lion Books), and the poetry collections Strut (Agape Editions) and Karma’s Footsteps (Flipped Eye). Tallie’s Dear Continuum: Letters to a Poet Crafting Liberation (Grand Concourse Press) gathers her advice to writers dedicated to social justice in epistolary form and was named a “Spectacular Book of 2015” by Split This Rock.
Tallie’s poetry is the subject of the film “I Leave My Colors Everywhere.” She is also featured in “Tell Me Another Story,” a film produced by the Ezra Jack Keats Foundation about the importance of inclusivity in children’s literature.
Tallie is the mother of three galaxies who look like daughters.