Shanta Lee
Shanta Lee is an award-winning artist, writer across genres, author, and public intellectual actively participating in the cultural discourse with work that has been widely featured. Winner of the Abel Meeropol Social Justice award and a 2024 National Arts Strategies Creative Community Fellow (New England) , “Hallowed Hunted Body” is included in, This Is How They Teach You How to Want It...The Slaughter: A Field Guide for the Hunted & the Hunter, The Dead-Alive, The Live-Dead Ones, The...(Harbor Editions, 2024). Her multimedia exhibition, Dark Goddess, which features her short film, interviews, and photography, and other items has been on view at the Fleming Museum of Art, the Southern Vermont Arts Center, and the Bennington Museum. She has an MFA in Creative Non-Fiction and Poetry at the Vermont College of Fine Arts, an MBA from the University of Hartford and an undergraduate degree in Women, Gender and Sexuality from Trinity College. Lee, author of several collections and regular contributor to Ms. Magazine and Art New England. Shanta currently teaches poetry at Wilkes University. To learn more, please visit www.shantalee.com