Alicia Mosley (she/her) is a poet, personal essay and fiction writer, mother, grandmother, yoga teacher, and community educator. Much of her writing explores being Black, queer, biracial, and neurodivergent while doing the surreal and magical work of mothering Black children. Becoming a mother at seventeen has shaped Alicia’s life and influences much of her artistic expression. Her work honors the grief just as it celebrates familial survival, perseverance, and joy amidst the ever-present threat of violence and anti-Blackness. She holds an MEd in Curriculum Development, an MFA in Creative Writing, certification in somatic and energy work, and is a registered yoga teacher.

A recipient of the Hurston Wright Foundation, Community of Writers, and the Gluck Arts Fellowships, Alicia’s creative work has appeared in Los Angeles Review of Books, Sun Magazine, BLAC Zine, The Pacific Review, an anthology “(Her)oics: Women’s Lived Experience During the Corona Virus” and forthcoming in “An Anthology of Non-Conformism: Rebel Wom!n Words, Ways and Wonders.”

Currently, in addition to teaching poetry, Black speculative fiction and Afrofuturism at an independent high school in Oakland, Alicia teaches yoga and offers workshops that blend creative practice with writing, breath work, movement and wellness practices. She is currently working on her first novel, Mothering Pound.