Barbara Fant
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Barbara Fant

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Barbara Fant has been writing and performing for nearly 20 years. She has competed in 15 National Poetry Slam competitions, is a 7x Grand Slam Champion, and is a World Poetry Slam finalist. She is the author of three poetry collections, Paint, Inside Out (2010), Mouths of Garden (2022), and Joy in the Belly of a Riot (forthcoming Fall of 2025). Her work has been featured in the Academy of American Poets, Electric Literature, McNeese Review, The Ohio State University Press, Button Poetry, and Def Poetry Jam, amongst others. She has received residencies in Havana, Cuba and Senegal, West Africa. For over 14 years, she had led healing-informed poetry workshops for both youth and adults who are incarcerated, those in community, adults in recovery, and survivors of human trafficking and domestic violence. She is a certified Healing Centered Engagement specialist and holds both an MFA in Poetry and a Master of Theological Studies. She is the founder of Bloom Life Arts and Bloom Life Foundation, Inc. She currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California.
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