Luvon Roberson

Luvon Roberson writes poetry, flash fiction, narrative performance, and ethnographic fiction, inspired by Zora Neale Hurston and fueled by word/writing as social justice. She founded Riverside Writing Group to build a community of social justice writers in 2021 and is a founding member of Thursday Morning Poets, birthed in a workshop by Queens Poet Laureate and Academy of American Poets Fellow Maria Lisella. For nearly 30 years she was a PR/Marketing Communications executive for life sciences corporations, such as Pfizer and Novartis, and for academic medical institutions, such as Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and Harvard School of Public Health. She then joined City College and New York Institute of Technology as Adjunct Faculty, teaching both undergraduate and graduate students.