Candice Iloh is a poet, creative writer, and educator residing in Brooklyn NY whose work has appeared in Insight Magazine, Blackberry Magazine, and the Fjords Review January 2015 Black American Issue. She is a Voices of Our Nation Arts Foundation Alum and the Managing Editor of Quiet Lunch Magazine. Her latest independent collection of poems 'Breakfast From Her Skin' can be found on TwoPensandLint.com and she can be contacted at www.becomher.com.
"I think the reality of hip hop is that women and queer people and a lot of folks who we think about being in the margins have always been at the center of the culture." Read More
"What I believe in is forgetting; it’s transformative, if not reformative, power. What does it mean to truly leave something behind? To excise a happening from not only your thoughts, but also from your body?" Read More
"Today, being black and gay is an armor, a gospel I love dearly. I love black queers. I love who and how we are. It’s taught me a lot of love; how it can surprise you with its leaps and failures." Read More