Maurisa Li-A-Ping is a writer and educator raised by an Afro-Caribbean Blaxk Womxn in Brooklyn, New York. She has work appearing in Puerto del Sol, Up the Staircase Quarterly, WusGood Mag, Lunch Ticket, and more. She is a Scholastic Art and Writing Awards recipient, Alumni Microgrant recipient, Poetry Pushcart Prize nominee along with various other awards and scholarships. Maurisa has touched stages at the World-Famous Apollo Theater, United Nations, Barclays Center, a host of college campuses and various other venues. Her dedication to the intersection of poetry in higher education can be seen through her publications in Celebrating Twenty Years of Black Girlhood: The Lauryn Hill Reader, The National Institute for Transformation and Equity, Pan African Spaces: Essays on Black Transnationalism, and About Campus. Her commitment to her craft as scholarship has allowed her to present and perform at the staple Higher Education Student Affairs Conferences held by the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators, ACPA – College Student Educators International, the National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in American Higher Education and more.
With Poetic Theater Productions:
Playwright of Taz (with two syllables), part of Breaking Our Silence in Poetic License 2020: Renewal
Featured Poet in Breaking Our Silence in Poetic License 2019: Resilience
Art featured in gallery show The Art of Resilience in Poetic License 2019: Resilience
Featured artist with viBe Theater Experience in Generation NOW! in Poetic License 2016
Featured artist with viBe Theater Experience in Generation NOW! in Poetic License 2013