Cyd Charisse Fulton

Cyd Charisse Fulton hails from Brooklyn, NY as a writer also founder and editor of Emphat!c Press. She is a graduate of New York University and is a 2012 Pushcart Prize nominee. Her work is featured in Stand Our Ground, I Want My Poetry To…, and Dovetail anthologies, aaduna.org electronic magazine, as well as Author’s Den and Wordpeace literary journals. Cyd featured her poems during Summerstage 2016 in Brooklyn, NY, 2016 Black History Month Say It Loud program at NYU Gallatin, Remembering the Harlem Renaissance 2015 at Theater Mack in Auburn, NY, the 2015 People’s State of the Union Poetic Address to the Nation, 2015 NYU Gallatin School Arts Festival Black Lives Matter, 2014 Washington, DC celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Hudson County Community College’s 2013 Poetry and Spoken Word gala, The Mariposa Retreat Reunion at The Writer’s Center in Maryland, Louder Arts, Cave Canem, Nuyorican Poets Café, Bowery Poetry Club, and the 100th Anniversary of the death of Harriet Tubman recognition gala in Auburn, NY. Ms. Fulton produced and hosted the 2014 poetry event for the Black Theater Network conference at the National Black Theater in Harlem. Her chapbooks Feeding Off of the North Star and Emphatic Radical are tools for social change.