Cherise Morris

Cherise Morris is a Detroit-based poet, multidisciplinary artist, ritualist and community healer and spiritual worker born and raised in rural Virginia. Her work merges experimental writing, poetry and prayer with performance, movement, sound and ritual practices to open loving, audacious and transformative spaces that invite us to explore, imagine and continue the infinite work of our individual and collective healing journeys and new-world building. Her writing has previously appeared in The Iowa Review, Longreads, Black Warrior Review and elsewhere. Her essays have twice been recognized as notable works of literary nonfiction in The Best American Essays Series 2018 and 2019. Morris is a 2019 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow. She is currently at work on her ongoing project, “Visions of the Evolution: The Ritual-Performance Series,” and her accompanying debut manuscript. Follow her @_cherise_morris_ and find more of her work at cherisemorris.com.