CANDICE ILOH

CREATIVE WRITER

Brooklyn-based creative writer, artist, and educator

Candice Iloh is a poet and educator residing in Brooklyn, New York. She is the author of three independent collections of poetry and a Voices of our Nation Arts Foundation alum, the nation’s only multi-genre writing workshop for writers of color. She is published in various arts magazines such as Insight Magazine and Blackberry magazine, forthcoming in Fjords Review Black American issue. When not writing, reading or working with young people and women of all ages, she dances.
in there
learn to body roll over
bass line and believe in
own breath
give thanks to curve
praise to rhythm you was born with
amen
— CI

 

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