Black Life Everywhere

E’mon Lauren is an artist and educator from the Wes and Souf side of Chicago, whose work unpacks her coined philosophy of “hood-womanism”. She was named Chicago’s first Youth Poet Laureate and has been featured in Vogue Magazine, Chicago Magazine, and The Chicago Tribune. Her work has appeared in the ​BreakBeat Poets Anthology​ series, Volumes 1 & 2, Poetry Foundation Magazine, The Reader, South Side Weekly and elsewhere. She is host of her hit talk show, “The Real Hoodwives of Chicago'', produced by her production company, BlkHoneyBun Productions, LLC. Her first chapbook of poems, ​”COMMANDO”​, was published by Haymarket Books, Fall of 2017.