Amanda Ngoho Reavey is an Emeritus Poetry Fellow at Black Earth Institute and the author of Marilyn (The Operating System, 2015), which won the 2017 Best Book Award in Poetry from the Association for Asian American Studies. With over 17 years experience helping individuals (re)member, (re)discover and (re)imagine their origin stories through facilitating creative writing and therapeutic journal writing workshops, Amanda believes restoryation is a vital restorative practice because our stories are sacred, and the (r)evolution is somatic. She is a member of the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets, and earned an MFA in Writing & Poetics from Naropa University. Currently, Amanda is working on a Master’s Degree in Social Work from Alverno College and a certificate in Poetry Therapy from the International Federation for Biblio/Poetry Therapy.