Nefertiti Asanti is a poet born and raised in the Bronx and a recipient of fellowships and residencies from the Watering Hole, EmergeNYC, Lambda Literary, Anaphora Arts, Winter Tangerine, and the Hurston/Wright Foundation. Nefertiti’s debut chapbook fist of wind is the winner of the inaugural Start a Riot! Chapbook Prize sponsored by Still Here San Francisco, RADAR Productions, and Foglifter. Nefertiti is also 2021 PEN America Emerging Voices fellow and prose poetry editor of Stellium Literary Magazine.