14 Facts About Yona Harvey

Yona Harvey was born on 1974 and is an American poet and assistant professor at University of Pittsburgh.

Yona Harvey is an author of Marvel Comics' World of Wakanda, becoming one of the first two black women writing for Marvel.

Yona Harvey went on to receive a graduate degree in English from Ohio State University and a Master of Library and Information Science degree from the University of Pittsburgh.

Yona Harvey's work has appeared in jubilat, Ploughshares, Gulf Coast, Callaloo, and West Branch.

Yona Harvey published her first poetry collection, Hemming the Water, with Four Way Books in 2013.

Yona Harvey is the Tammis Day Professor of Poetry at Smith College.

Yona Harvey was previously an assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh.

Yona Harvey teaches in the English department's writing program; her teaching deals with African and disaporic literature and culture, digital and new media, poetry and lyric essays, and multimodal composition.

Yona Harvey is on the faculty for The Frost Place's 2017 Conference on Poetry.

Yona Harvey wrote her first comic, an issue of "Flatbush Maiden", as an undergraduate.

In 2016, Yona Harvey became a writer for the Marvel Comics series World of Wakanda, a spinoff of the Black Panther series; she and Roxane Gay are the first two black women to write for Marvel.

Yona Harvey is completing a second poetry manuscript and working on a memoir about her younger sister's struggles with depression.

Yona Harvey is divorced from Terrance Hayes; the two met at a Cave Canem retreat for black poets in 1996.

Yona Harvey's sister died at the hospital where she went in search of psychiatric help.