Rasheena Fountain

Rasheena Fountain centers environmental advocacy and justice. She has received fellowships and support from the Jack Straw Writers Program, National Audubon, and Sundress Academy for the Arts.  Fountain is the author of Starfish Blues: A Memoir. Her blues poetry film, Dropped Down Blues, debuted in the “How We Carry Water” 2024 exhibit at PRAx. Fountain has a BA in Creative Writing from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, an M.A.Ed. from Antioch University Seattle/IslandWood, and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Washington, where she is focusing on blues and environmental humanities as a PhD candidate in English.