Anastacia-Reneé has never invested in the idea of “writer’s block.” Since 2010, the writer, educator and interdisciplinary artist has written every single day about the world around her. It’s a practice that has been with her through numerous awards and residencies and during her “big year” in 2017 where she became the city’s second Seattle Civic Poet, published three books and married her wife, Naa Akua. Now she prepares to take that practice with her to New York City as she and her wife prepare to leave the area Anastacia-Reneé has called home for over 15 years in search of their next chapter.
As her daily writing practice continued during a difficult two years of the pandemic, Anastacia-Reneé said she found herself having “a lot more to say.”
“It made me…
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