Writing as a Medicine: A Conversation with Rowana Abbensetts-Dobson

Hey Village! Y'all know how much I love a good book and I love the people who know a great story to publish those good books. Black writers, writers of color, and other marginalized voices have had their stories silenced. It is so important to have these stories shared and luckily, there are people like Rowana, who see the value in those stories and does her absolute best to share them to the mainstream. 

This week, I am chatting with Rowana Abbensetts-Dobson,  a Guyanese-American writer, author of Departure Story, and founder of Spoken Black Girl, a publishing & media company that promotes mental health and wellness among Black women & women of color by amplifying emerging voices. Rowana has had fiction and poetry published in Moko Magazine, Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora, Culture Push, When We Exhale: Anthology of Black Women Rooted in Ancestral Medicine, and Free Verse Magazine. As a freelance health and wellness writer, Rowana has written for Insider, GoodRx, Well +Good, Bold Culture by Streamline Media, The Tempest, Insider, and Electric Lit.

Rowana is reading: "The Black Girls Guide to Financial Freedom" by Paris Woods 

Chioko is reading: "Get Good with Money" by Tiffany Aliche 

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Instagram: @Rowana_a and @Spokenblackgirlmag

Twitter: @Rowana_a

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Facebook:  @Spokenblackgirl

Website: Spokenblackgirl.com

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