Rasheena Fountain
Rasheena Fountain centers environmental advocacy and justice. She has received fellowships and support from the Jack Straw Writers Program, National Audubon, and Sundress Academy for the Arts. Fountain is the author of Starfish Blues: A Memoir. Her blues poetry film, Dropped Down Blues, debuted in the “How We Carry Water” 2024 exhibit at PRAx. Fountain has a BA in Creative Writing from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, an M.A.Ed. from Antioch University Seattle/IslandWood, and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Washington, where she is focusing on blues and environmental humanities as a PhD candidate in English.
Starfish Blues: A Memoir
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Rasheena Fountain's sweeping memoir centers on stories of Black migration, exploration, and relationships to nature and place. Through a series of letters, poems, and essays that take blues-inspired leaps across time, she reflects on the movements of her ancestors and on her own journeys: from Chicago to Seattle, from city life to nature conservation, and from silence into songwriting. In Starfish Blues, Fountain seeks something "much bigger than representation" a recouping of ancestral visions of freedom for herself and her daughter, and a life that has room for her queerness, her womanhood, her Blackness, her full self.
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