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Alysia has dedicated her life to studying words in their spiritual, social, linguistic and creative capacities. Renowned internationally as a spoken word artist, Alysia has had a professional career as a performance artist and speaker since 2010, amassing over nine million views on YouTube. The author of the prize-winning chapbook How Much We Must Have Looked Like Stars to Stars (2016) received her MFA in poetry from New York University in 2014 and her PhD in linguistics from Yale University in 2019. Her dissertation focused on the discourse-oriented uses of the preverbal particles ‘be’ and ‘done’ in African-American English and developed a novel compositional analysis of their meaning and distribution. As an art journalist and the founding Arts and Soul Editor for Scalawag Magazine, Alysia has supported artists and writers elucidating spiritual and political matters through their creative practices.
