Magenta (she/they) is a Black queer writer, teaching artist and multidimensional artist from Brooklyn, NY. Their art is curious about shapeshifting, Black diasporic myths, love, horror, afrosurrealism and the elasticity of Black femme and nonbinary embodiment. Magenta is published (under their government, Alisha Acquaye) in Carve Magazine, The Iowa Review, Plentitudes Journal, Allure, Teen Vogue, and more places. As a teaching artist, Magenta curates imaginative writing spaces for Black writers to explore different realms within themselves. Magenta is a 2023 recipient of NYSCA’s Support for Artists Grant and has participated in The Bandung Residency, The Free Black Women’s Library: Obsidian, StoryKnife Writers Retreat, Tin House and Rhode Island Writers Colony. Magenta loves to curate playlists, watch cartoons, bake pastries, dance in nature and talk to trees.
