Latorial Faison

LATORIAL FAISON is the author of Nursery Rhymes in Black (University of Alaska Press, June 2025), Mother to Son (2017), Amazon Kindle best-sellers, LOVE POEMS, 28 Days of Poetry Celebrating Black History Volumes 1-3, flesh, I AM WOMAN, Secrets of My Soul, Immaculate Perceptions, children's books, 100 Poems You Can Write and Kendall's Golf Lesson. Faison's work has been accepted for publication by Callaloo, Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora, Artemis Journal, RHINO, Prairie Schooner, PENUMBRA, West Trestle Review, Solstice Literary Magazine, Crab Orchard Review, Stonecoast Review, Typishly Literary Magazine, About Place Journal, Typehouse, Southern Poetry Anthology, Kalyani Magazine, Black Girl Seeks, The Chattahoochee Review, Virginia's Best Emerging Poets, Blackberry, Solstice Literary Magazine, and Mandala Journal.

Faison's creative nonfiction and fiction have been featured in the NAACP Image Award winner, Keeping the Faith: Stories of Love, Courage, Healing, and Hope from Black America, Forging Freedom, The Path, and Untenured. Additionally, she has collaborative work in Electronic Corpse: Poems from a Digital Salon edited by M. Ayodele Heath Other publishing credits include The Poetry Society of Virginia's 80th Anniversary Anthology, Poetic Gumbo, Hurricane Katrina Couldn't Break Us, and The Voices Project. Faison's poems have also appeared in BET's Digital Drum, Chickenbones, Southern Women's Review, Deep South Magazine, Poetry Quarterly, in multicultural romance novelist JJ Murray's, Original Love, and in Three Minus One (inspired by the film Return to Zero with Sean Hanish and Brooke Warner). Some of Faison's most notable poems have been adapted for the stage and performed by students, performance poets, and spoken word artists. Faison is the author of two limited edition chapbooks, Poetically Speaking (2001) and Realities (2004).

Additionally, FAISON has edited a teen chapbook (Rapping and Rhyming, 2010) as well as two junior writing anthologies, one fiction (Walton, 2009) and one poetry (Poems from the Eagle's Nest, 2008) in promotion of the arts in local schools. In 2022, Faison published historical research in education, The Missed Education of the Negro: An Examination of the Black Segregated Education Experience in Southampton County, VA 1950-1970 available at Barnes & Noble and Amazon.

WRITERS RETREATS, CONFERENCES & SEMINARS: The Inaugural James Arthur Baldwin Symposium (JABIS), The Poetry Society of Virginia (PSV) Festival, Hudson Valley Writers Center, The 1455 Story Festival, Jackson State University Phillis Wheatley Writing Festival, Virginia Association of Teachers of English (VATE) Conference, Women Education Leaders in Virginia (WELV), JMU Furious Flower Poetry Center Living Legacy Seminars, Hurston/Wright Foundation Workshops, Medgar Evers College of CUNY Center for Black Literature, ASALH, Wintergreen Women Writers, Women in Bloom Poetry Salon, The Watering Hole, CAVE CANEM, Baltimore's CityLit Festival & Writing Seminars, Paine College's Centennial Reflections on the Harlem Renaissance, ODU Literary Festival, Library of Congress National Book Festival, Virginia Festival of the Book, PBS, Yale University, Girl Trek, The Zinn Project, Teach for Change, Insider Higher Education, Sigma Tau Delta, AERA, AESA, The Blue Ridge Writers Collective, VEA Educators of Color Summit, Military Child Education Coalition (MCEC), College Language Association (CLA), The Wintergreen Women Writers Retreat.