Shawntai Brown is a poet, playwright, teaching artist, and the School Programs Manager at InsideOut Literary Arts. Through InsideOut, she has worked with over 40 area schools to uplift student voices. Shawntai holds a master of arts in Literacy Learning from Marygrove College and was a 2020 Detroit Kresge Artist Fellow.  Shawntai has collaborated with writers and theatre artists across Michigan, scribing more than a dozen plays centering the experiences of people of color and queer people. She is co-founder of Black LGBT+ Plays and co-host of Woman Crush Everyday, a webshow about representations of Black queer women in media.

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