Syreeta McFadden

Syreeta McFadden is a lecturer of English at Borough of Manhattan Community College, where she teaches writing, literature, and journalism. Syreeta’s work deals largely with gender, politics, race, and culture. Her work has appeared in the poetry anthology Break Beat Poets 2: Black Girl Magic and in the anthology Indelible in the Hippocampus: Writings From The #MeToo Movement. Her essay and criticism have appeared in The Atlantic, New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, The Guardian US, Brooklyn Magazine, and BuzzFeed News. She was a 2013 CEC ArtsLink One Big City Residency recipient, a 2018 creative arts fellow at SPACE at Ryder Farm, and a 2022 resident at Ragdale. She holds degrees from Columbia University and Sarah Lawrence College. She is writing a book-length collection of essays about African Americans in the Middle West.