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Monica Prince, Associate Professor of Activist & Performance Writing, serves as Director of Africana Studies at Susquehanna University in Pennsylvania. She is the author of FORCE: A Choreopoem (2026), Roadmap: A Choreopoem (2023), How to Exterminate the Black Woman: A Choreopoem (2020), Instructions for Temporary Survival (2019), and Letters from the Other Woman (2018). Her work appears in Twisted Tongue, In Short, Wildness, The Missouri Review, The Texas Review, The Rumpus, American Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. As one of the foremost choreopoem scholars, Prince writes, teaches, and performs choreopoems across the nation. She shares her life with her husband, polycule, and disrespectful cats. Keep up with her on Instagram or her website, www.monicaprince.com.
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