Empowering Marginalized Voices

Please join award-winning author Kesha Ajose-Fisher in conversation with Sue Campbell about how writers from traditionally marginalized groups can stay true to their writing voice and get their stories into the world.

Kesha Ajose Fisher was born in Chicago and raised in Lagos, Nigeria. She now lives in Oregon with her family. Kesha's debut collection of fictional stories, No God Like the Mother, focuses on the lives and realities of women who've been tasked with holding up the sky all the while the world whispers, "You're doing it wrong." No God Like the Mother won the 2020 Oregon book award for fiction and the Phoenix Literary Magazine's Editors' Choice Award for short fiction. It was rereleased in 2023 by Forest Avenue Press. Her writing has been published in several online and print collections and in such publications as Multicultural Familia magazine and the Alchemy Literary magazine, and twice in Beyond Black and White magazine. Kesha is committed to fighting for social justice and her dedication to this cause can be seen in everything she does. She works in social services, is a vocal advocate for immigrants and refugees, and she champions equality and education while opposing the poverty that plagues humanity.