Taiwana is currently writing a first novel playing with the possibilities of anger, youth, and black radical tradition. In the meantime, feel free to explore her published prose, poetry, and performances. She invites you to subscribe to her free mailing list for updates and exclusive content.
Bookish
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Norf and Other Angry Black Girl Beginnings: a Fiction and Poetry Chapbook
Currently Searching for Publisher, Forthcoming 2025. For updates, sign up for Taiwana’s mailing list below.
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One Good Argument for Youth Prison Abolition
Funded by CURA, Originally Published by Public Philosophy Journal, 2023.
Prose
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Rest in Power, RaLasia Wright
Instagram, 2024.
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7 Reading Strategies
Instagram, 2024.
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Post-2024 Election Results: The Right Wins the U.S. Presidency, Again, And We Still Have the Power to Build and Protect Life-Affirming Worlds
Instagram, 2024.
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25th Birthday Post
Instagram, 2024.
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Rest in Power, Ellijah of St. Paul
Instagram, 2023.
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Nothing For Us Without Us
Minnesota Women’s Press, 2022.
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Youth Prisons: Abolition or Reform?: a Public Holistic Response
Public Philosophy Journal, 2023.
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Undergraduate Journalism
The Echo, Augsburg’s Student Newspaper, 2018-2021.
Poetry
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How to Love an Alcoholic in Two parts Ending with a Drunk Stumbling Down Maryland Avenue
Academy of American Poets, 2020.
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The Market on Maryland Avenue
Black in the Middle: an Anthology of the Black Midwest, Belt Publishing, 2020.
Performances & Panels
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Taiwana Reads Excerpts from Novel In-Progress
Queer Voices, 2022.
Other readers include Trisha Collopy, Molly Beth Griffin, Josina Manu Maltzman, aegor ray.
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Artist Equity Summit
American Composers Forum, 2022.
Co-performers include Isha Camara and Athena Estime.
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The Past/Present/Future of Abolition in Minneapolis and Beyond
MPD150, 2022.
