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Alma Simba is a writer, historian, and experimental sound artist interested in both the potentials and failures of words in capturing the human experience. Her subject matter is ancestral heritage and how indigenous black Africans can communicate and explore this history through oral traditions, memory, and imagination. She is part of the Ajabu Ajabu audio-visual collective in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Her writing has appeared in The Floor, SAPIENS, Myopia, and The Clare Market Review. Follow her on Twitter and Instagram. hungry he says i love you, but i know it is how i crust the bottom of the rice without burning it. dice fresh mango into salad of beef tomatoes curled parsley and water onion. a puddle of tears when i try to leave, the nightmare of waking up to a home that does not smell like rose lotion, lemongrass, hot cream, ginger root. who is to say, who is who, what is what. thin lines - attraction/infatuation seared coastline of fat on the sirloin steak. i drink wine after dinner, even after a week of him sending articles on the dangers of wild women. yet, cries when i pack my bags, cherry bark, basil stem, cashew butter and tonics for every day of the week. at the seaside barbecue burns, salt-air, memory: the door was hardwood, but i did not slam it closed, left it ajar, parted slightly. so the room could air out. ### Torch Literary Arts is a 501(c)3 nonprofit established to publish and promote creative writing by Black women. We publish contemporary writing by experienced and emerging writers alike. Programs include the Wildfire Reading Series, writing workshops, and retreats. Help TORCH continue to publish and promote Black women writers by donating today.

Damilola Omotoyinbo (Frontier XIX), is a Nigerian Creative Writer, a fellow of the Ebedi International Writers' Residency, and a finalist for the 2022 Writing Ukraine Prize. She has work published or forthcoming on Lolwe, Olongo, The Deadlands, Ake Review, Agbowoart, and elsewhere. In addition to writing, Damilola studied Biochemistry. Follow her on Twitter. miracle tongues entwined. fingers stroke every crooked thing till they become straight. palms cup turgid breasts and carve them into percussion instruments — a drum, a gong. tits morph into a harmonica. Aṣa's Be My Man plays softly, and every thrust, wonder that turns back the clock's hands. time slows — lit candles cast hazy shadows of hands caressing an hourglass. two souls stretched taut begin to float in space, they long to refract reality — to birth a surreal thing. their bodies search for the closest route to heaven. they cradle desire into a mould of miracle. listen to the music of horny groin — a woman moaning down the walls of Jericho. cleansing. purification. fanatics digging their way through fantasy island. ### Torch Literary Arts is a 501(c)3 nonprofit established to publish and promote creative writing by Black women. We publish contemporary writing by experienced and emerging writers alike. Programs include the Wildfire Reading Series, writing workshops, and retreats. Help TORCH continue to publish and promote Black women writers by donating today.

She earned her BA in Creative Writing from Susquehanna University and is a current Poetry MFA candidate

Born on a Friday in December, Fatihah Quadri Eniola is a young Nigerian poet whose work has been featured in The West Trade Review, The Shore Poetry, Agbowo, Brittle Paper, Isele Magazine and elsewhere.

Ashunda Norris is a Black feminist multidisciplinary artist with creative work that encompasses film, poetry A two-time Furious Flower Poetry Prize finalist, Ashunda holds fellowships from Cave Canem, the California Ashunda’s writing has been featured or is forthcoming in Gulf Coast, Obsidian, Taint Taint Taint, Root

She writes speculative poetry about Black women’s multilayered approaches towards healing from violence TORCH has featured work by Toi Derricotte, Tayari Jones, Sharon Bridgforth, Crystal Wilkinson, Patricia

TORCH has featured work by Toi Derricotte, Tayari Jones, Sharon Bridgforth, Crystal Wilkinson, Patricia

Pauline and my mom were on the Sunday School committee at church together and played Bingo every other Friday TORCH has featured work by Toi Derricotte, Tayari Jones, Sharon Bridgforth, Crystal Wilkinson, Patricia

Their chapbook the Devils that raised Us was longlisted at Frontier Poetry. come, lenme $20 till friday come wha’ massa yuh know itchin’ to pay? TORCH has featured work by Toi Derricotte, Tayari Jones, Sharon Bridgforth, Crystal Wilkinson, Patricia

TORCH has featured work by Toi Derricotte, Tayari Jones, Sharon Bridgforth, Crystal Wilkinson, Patricia

And in many ways, much of her poetry and nonfiction addresses the politics of “bordering identities.” Aisha’s poetry has also appeared in Rattle, Callaloo, Crab Orchard Review, and Calyx. Her first book of poetry, To Keep From Undressing, was released by Spark Wheel Press in 2019. TORCH has featured work by Toi Derricotte, Tayari Jones, Sharon Bridgforth, Crystal Wilkinson, Patricia

She was a winner of the Poetry Translation, Lagos-London competition ‘22 and a runner-up in the Abubakar published or has works forthcoming in Salt Hill Journal, Ake Review, Parentheses Art, Agbowo, Tinderbox Poetry She was a mentor in the 2023 SpringNg writing fellowship, she edits poetry at Olumo Review and is a prose