TCLive Artist Profile Home GuestPoets TCLive Village Forums Links Support GuestBook Gallery DEEP SOUTH CONNECTION Visit our sites Need a website? Join the Movement DSC is Coming!! TCLive Blutopia Tru's Room Red River Writes Soul Food Cafe Red River Playboys Ballards Bytes Black Man Speaketh	"Dr. Ni" Niama Leslie Williams, a June 2006 Leeway Foundation Art and Social Change Grant recipient, and a 2006 participant in a Sable Literary Magazine/Arvon Foundation residential course in Shropshire, UK, possesses a doctorate in African American literature from Temple University, a bachelor's in comparative literature from Occidental College, and a master's in professional writing (emphasis fiction) from the University of Southern California. Dr. Williams was born and raised in Los Angeles, California, though she currently resides in Norristown, Pennsylvania. Niama L. Williams, PH.D. Norristown, PA 484.674.7804 (fax) niamapers@gmail.com www.blowingupbarriers.com Dr. Williams has participated in several writers' conferences, including the Squaw Valley Community of Writers, Hurston/Wright Writers Week, and Flight of the Mind. Her work has appeared in Poets & Writers Magazine; Dark Eros: Black Erotic Writings; Spirit & Flame: An Anthology of African American Poetry; Catch the Fire: A Cross-Generational Anthology of Contemporary African-American Poetry; Beyond the Frontier: African American Poetry for the 21st Century; Mischief, Caprice, and Other Poetic Strategies (Red Hen Press), A Deeper Shade of Sex: The Best in Black Erotica, and Check the Rhyme: An Anthology of Female Poets & Emcees. Check the Rhyme was nominated for an NAACP Image Award (2007). Her prose publications include essays and short stories in MindFire Renewed, P.A.W. Prints, Midnight Mind Magazine, Amateur Computerist, Tattoo Highway #6, Obsidian II: Black Literature in Review, and Sojourner: The Women's Forum. She has 7 titles available for sale on Lulu.com (http://stores.lulu.com/drni), an online print-on-demand publisher based in the U.K. Dr. Williams hosted "Poetry & Prose & Anything Goes with Dr. Ni" Tuesdays from 8-9 p.m. EST on Passionate Internet Voices Talk Radio (www.internetvoicesradio.com), a station owned by Ms. Lillian Cauldwell of Ann Arbor, MI, from February to April of 2007. Her short story "The Embrace" was selected for the 2006-2007 Writing Aloud series at the InterAct Theatre Company in Philadelphia, PA. Of her purpose for writing Dr. Williams says: "I frequently do not err on the side of caution in my writing, but I believe in the purpose of it: to speak to the things others do not want to speak of, with the hopes of reaching that one woman, or her lover, or her friend, who refuses to deal with her pain, who hides from it, who doesn't think she'll survive it. That's the audience I hope to reach." Sign the Guest Book Publications by Niama	EDUCATION: TEMPLE UNIVERSITY Philadelphia, PA Ph.D. in African American Studies Dissertation: Black Poetic Feminism: The Imagination of Toi Derricotte Master of Arts Degree in African American Studies UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA Los Angeles, CA M.P.W. Professional (Creative) Writing OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE Los Angeles, CA Bachelor of Arts Degree in Comparative Literature WRITER'S DIGEST SCHOOL Cincinnati, OH Writing to Sell Fiction ALGONKIAN POETRY WORKSHOP (Online) Art of Poetry III WOMEN'S BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CNTR Philadelphia, PA FastTrac New Venture Course (Business Plan writing) TEACHING EXPERIENCE: 2004 to 2006 TEMPLE UNIVERSITY Philadelphia, PA Adjunct Professor: Taught a variety of undergraduate literature and Intellectual Heritage courses. 2005 UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA Philadelphia, PA Poetry Workshop Facilitator: Conducted poetry workshops for the Kelley Writers House as part of the Voice of Philadelphia Project. 2000 to 2003 L. A. COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT Los Angeles, CA Instructor: Taught English courses from basic skills to college level reading and composition. 2000 to 2001 LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY Los Angeles, CA Instructor: Taught introductory composition, poetry, and fiction courses. HONORS & AWARDS: Contributor to Check the Rhyme: An Anthology of Female Poets & Emcees, edited by DuEwa Frazier, LitNoire Publishing, an NAACP Image Award nominee, February 2007. Leeway Foundation Art and Social Change Grant recipient, June 2006, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Contributor to My Soul to His Spirit: Soulful Expressions from Black Daughters to Their Fathers, edited by Melda Beaty, SoulDictates Publishing, winner of Fresh Voices Award 2006, African-American Studies category, Writer?s Marketing Association. Third Place, First Person Festival Writing Contest sponsored by the Philadelphia City Paper, June 2005. Honorable Mention, Non-Rhyming Poetry Category, Writer?s Digest 2004 Writing Competition. Who's Who In America 2004, 58th edition. Honorable Mention, Rhyming Poem Category, Writer's Digest 2000 Writing Competition.
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