Darise JeanBaptiste

Darise JeanBaptiste  is a writer born and raised in the Bronx. She earned her MFA from Rutgers-Newark and her MA in English from Brooklyn College. She is a board member with Mind-Builders Creative Arts Center, a community arts organization where she attended youth summer camp. She also volunteers with Lampblack, an organization created in 2020 to support Black writers. Her work is featured at Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, Nature, Electric Literature, Green Mountains Review, and Aster(ix) Journal. When she’s not writing, Darise enjoys spending time with her nieces and nephews, traveling to her father’s homeland of St.Lucia with her sisters, or visiting dessert shops in Brooklyn, where she currently lives with her partner.