Monifa Love Asante serves on the faculty at Bowie State University, where she teaches in the Scholar’s Studio and coordinates the graduate program. A writer and teacher, she is a graduate of Princeton University, and has also received a doctorate from The Florida State University where she matriculated as a McKnight Doctoral Fellow and as an associate of the great philosopher and oppression theorist William R. Jones.
Love Asante is the author of two collections of poetry, “Provisions” (1989) and “Dreaming Underground” (2003, Naomi Long Madgett award winner). She co-authored two fine arts catalogs about the life and work of Ed Love and produced “….my magic pours secret libations,” a fine arts catalog and video of an exhibition she curated of African American and Afro-Cuban women artists. She is the co-author of “Romancing Harlem,” a cultural memoir of Harlem, written with Charles Mills.
Additionally, Love Asante co-authored the chapter “Deep-Rooted Cane: Consanguinity, Writing, and Genre” with writer Evans D. Hopkins, who is the inspiration for the character of David Carmichael in Love Asante’s award-winning novel, “Freedom in the Dismal” (1998). She recently completed a mixed genre collection, “After the Rain: waking, walking, swimming, flying,” and the novel, “Crownsville.”
Monifa’s contribution to COVID-19 PAGES is a literary passage called “Drawing Breath: Creating in a Time of Great Sickness.” It is excerpted from a longer work entitled “Battle Hymn: Crownsville 1871-2021.”
Find the exhibition here: https://wellsinternationalfoundation.org/covid-19-pages-exhibit/
