Alexandria Valentine

Alexandria Valentine (they/she) is a multi-genre writer and interdisciplinary artist from Chicago. They received their undergraduate degree, a Bachelor of Fine Arts with an Emphasis in Writing, from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a Master of Fine Arts in Fiction from Columbia University School of the Arts. Their literary work is concerned with investigating the stories of black, female, narrators of the Jim Crow and Reconstruction era. Their visual practice explores concepts of hybridity and the land as spiritual conduit informing our emotions, histories and futures. They utilize archival images, cultural ephemera, their personal archive and public archives as material in their study of black Americans’ complicated relationship with the natural and constructed world. Their visual and literary work intersects in its pursuit to bridge temporal gaps in collective black memory.