Learn more about Stephanie d. Chrismon

“Diversity is about all of us, and about us having to figure out how to walk through this world together” —Jacqueline Woodson.

Stephanie Chrismon is a Black/biracial (Black/German), Fat, Queer, Afrofuturist, writer, and educator who identifies as masculine of center. She presents and writes on various topics related to race, sexuality, family karma, social justice, and generational theory. She uses pop culture, literature, and art as critical tools in exploring social justice and dismantling oppression. She earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in creative writing from Hamline University and a Bachelor of Arts in political science from the University of Minnesota, Morris. 

Stephanie participated in the 2016-2017 Loft Mentor Series in Poetry and Creative Prose. She was a fellow in the 2015 Emerging Writers’ Mentor Program sponsored by the Givens Foundation for African American Literature. Her writing has appeared in Water~Stone Review, MN Artists, The Root, Black Girl Nerds, and Medium and is included in the anthology Queer Voices: Poetry, Prose, and Pride. Her debut novel (under her pen name dc edwards), Bright City, was published in 2017. 

She is also an independent DEI consultant with Avant Consulting Group, Strategic Diversity Initiatives, and C.A. Ellis and Associates, LLC, working with health systems, city/public works institutions, and higher education. In 2022, she completed work as the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Consultant for the UW MESA state office via AmeriCorps.

She is also a proud member of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated, a Black Greek Letter Organization (BGLO) formed in 1920 on the Howard University campus. She has been a Sigma Beta Zeta chapter member in Roseville, MN, since December 2018. 

She currently lives in Saint Paul, MN, where she has lived for 20 years.