Nadia Bongo is a teaching artist and translator. She holds a PhD in French Language and Literature from Aix-Marseille Universite. She has earned a Brooklyn Poets Fellowship. Her writing and/or photographs have appeared in Apex, African Voices, Litro online, Solstice, The Citron Review, Taos journal of Poetry, Blue Mesa Review, and elsewhere. Nadia's two co-directed short poetry films, Wandering In Beauty and L'Horizon Vacant, have been selected by festivals such as Fotogenia Film Festival (Mexico) and exhibited at cultural institutions such as Bronx River Art Center(NY). She has received grants from University Open Air (BPL) and Boston Writers of Color. Nadia was a Teaching Artist in Residence for Washington Square Park Conservancy.
​
All the photographs are mine unless indicated otherwise

©Kay Grigar