Rasheena Fountain is a writer from the west side of Chicago and doctoral student in English at the University of Washington, with a focus on Black environmental memory. Using a Black feminist, eco-critical, and anti-colonial lens, she looks toward Black texts and art practices to recuperate Black aspirations and freedom through movement, relationships with place and other-than-humans, and visions for life within the Anthropocene.

She has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Washington and MAEd in Urban Environmental Education from Antioch University Seattle in partnership with IslandWood. Her work has been published in the Black Embodiments Studio journal, Jelly Bucket, swamp pink, You Are Here: The Journal of Creative Geography, the Natural Resources Defense Council website, and more. She received a 2021 Honorable Mention from the Trillium Arts “Miss Sarah” Fellowship for Black Women Writers and was a Finalist for the Solstice Magazine 2022 Stephen Dunn Poetry Prize for her poem “Not an ‘other’ Climate Poem."