Queen Sheba: Spoken Word
click here to book queen sheba nowBorn in Detroit, MI, living in Atlanta GA since Aug 2005 - is the
Founder of Poetry vs. Hip-Hop, and selected by the Israeli Consulate General of Atlanta as one of eight community leaders from around the country to be a Delegate of the Israel Office of
Foreign Affairs, to participate in a Social Impact and Educational Tour in Isreal Feb 2023.
Sheba is a GRAMMY COLLABORATED Master Spoken Word Artist and Poet and was featured on the Grammy Nominated album “F-Your Feelings” by Robert Glasper. Sheba has eight albums, three of which were up for a Grammy under the Spoken Word category. Her works have appeared in numerous anthologies, and magazines including
Voyage ATL, Creative Loafing, Rolling Out, and the focus of college students’ papers, everywhere!
Queen Sheba is, also, a current Grammy U Mentor, teaching college students about the billion-dollar Art and Entertainment industry.
Sheba has two books: From Foster Care to Fame short stories and poems too long for three minutes and Run Ugly! A motivational book for runners.
A two-time NAACP Image Award Nominee, Atlanta's Creative Loafing’s People’s Choice Spoken Word Artist of the Year, a recent candidate for the Atlanta Public School Board,
Professor of Creative Writing at Clark Atlanta University and Sheba also received the Gentlemen’s Foundation ‘Gentle Woman of Artistry’Artist of the Year award for her work in the LGBT community for HIV Prevention. As a Dj, she played for the Georgia Department of Health on an HIV Prevention/PREP tour.
In 2020 during a global pandemic, Sheba was invited to participate in a collection of poetry, short stories & visual art by the city of Atlanta, and also received the 2021 Girlfriend’s
Visionary Award.She has been recognized by PATREON & Furious Flower with grants to continue her work(s).
Sheba is also a featured performer on season two of Verses and Flow, brought to you by Lexus on TV One, and has been on the TV show Spoken, a featured poet on Lyric Café on BET, 106 &
Park, the Apollo, and the feature-length film ‘Spit’.
Her 2nd collection of poems "Clemency: poems to help you accept the apologies you will never receive" is due out April 2023 in celebration of National Poetry Month! An Int’l 4-Countries Slam Champion, two-time National Poetry Slam Champ, three-time
Regional Poetry Slam Champ and a Women of the World & Individual World Poetry Slam Finalist. With a Master's in Poetry from Queens University - Spoken Word artist, motivational speaker, comedian, Dj and bathroom concert singer, Sheba tours internationally and has conducted performances and workshops at over 300 colleges and universities domestically and abroad.
An Association for Performace of College Activities - Performer of the Year Nominee, Sheba has published over 20+ students as a Creative Writing Professor at the Historical Black Clark Atlanta
University where she teaches Poetry, Story Telling and Fiction.
[Queen Sheba was adopted by a white family in 1977, in Jackson, MI at the age of two and a half. After a lot of red tape – the family then moved to Detroit, MI where Sheba grew up – a brown girl in the throws of the Black Power Movement of the 80s – in the heart of the city – while navigating her identity as a young black woman being raised by people that did not look
like- but loved her through her formative years.
At the age of 15 – Sheba and her adoptive family split and she was enrolled in Edgewood Acres; a youth home in Grand Rapids, MI, where Sheba graduated high school from Grand Rapids
Central and went on to become a graduate of Old Dominion University, in Norfolk, VA, and then later went on to earn her MFA from Queens University, in Charlotte.] A small business owner and Social Impact and Thought Leader in Atlanta, you can join
her community: @thequeensheba on all social media to find out what Queen Sheba has coming up next!
Founder of Poetry vs. Hip-Hop, and selected by the Israeli Consulate General of Atlanta as one of eight community leaders from around the country to be a Delegate of the Israel Office of
Foreign Affairs, to participate in a Social Impact and Educational Tour in Isreal Feb 2023.
Sheba is a GRAMMY COLLABORATED Master Spoken Word Artist and Poet and was featured on the Grammy Nominated album “F-Your Feelings” by Robert Glasper. Sheba has eight albums, three of which were up for a Grammy under the Spoken Word category. Her works have appeared in numerous anthologies, and magazines including
Voyage ATL, Creative Loafing, Rolling Out, and the focus of college students’ papers, everywhere!
Queen Sheba is, also, a current Grammy U Mentor, teaching college students about the billion-dollar Art and Entertainment industry.
Sheba has two books: From Foster Care to Fame short stories and poems too long for three minutes and Run Ugly! A motivational book for runners.
A two-time NAACP Image Award Nominee, Atlanta's Creative Loafing’s People’s Choice Spoken Word Artist of the Year, a recent candidate for the Atlanta Public School Board,
Professor of Creative Writing at Clark Atlanta University and Sheba also received the Gentlemen’s Foundation ‘Gentle Woman of Artistry’Artist of the Year award for her work in the LGBT community for HIV Prevention. As a Dj, she played for the Georgia Department of Health on an HIV Prevention/PREP tour.
In 2020 during a global pandemic, Sheba was invited to participate in a collection of poetry, short stories & visual art by the city of Atlanta, and also received the 2021 Girlfriend’s
Visionary Award.She has been recognized by PATREON & Furious Flower with grants to continue her work(s).
Sheba is also a featured performer on season two of Verses and Flow, brought to you by Lexus on TV One, and has been on the TV show Spoken, a featured poet on Lyric Café on BET, 106 &
Park, the Apollo, and the feature-length film ‘Spit’.
Her 2nd collection of poems "Clemency: poems to help you accept the apologies you will never receive" is due out April 2023 in celebration of National Poetry Month! An Int’l 4-Countries Slam Champion, two-time National Poetry Slam Champ, three-time
Regional Poetry Slam Champ and a Women of the World & Individual World Poetry Slam Finalist. With a Master's in Poetry from Queens University - Spoken Word artist, motivational speaker, comedian, Dj and bathroom concert singer, Sheba tours internationally and has conducted performances and workshops at over 300 colleges and universities domestically and abroad.
An Association for Performace of College Activities - Performer of the Year Nominee, Sheba has published over 20+ students as a Creative Writing Professor at the Historical Black Clark Atlanta
University where she teaches Poetry, Story Telling and Fiction.
[Queen Sheba was adopted by a white family in 1977, in Jackson, MI at the age of two and a half. After a lot of red tape – the family then moved to Detroit, MI where Sheba grew up – a brown girl in the throws of the Black Power Movement of the 80s – in the heart of the city – while navigating her identity as a young black woman being raised by people that did not look
like- but loved her through her formative years.
At the age of 15 – Sheba and her adoptive family split and she was enrolled in Edgewood Acres; a youth home in Grand Rapids, MI, where Sheba graduated high school from Grand Rapids
Central and went on to become a graduate of Old Dominion University, in Norfolk, VA, and then later went on to earn her MFA from Queens University, in Charlotte.] A small business owner and Social Impact and Thought Leader in Atlanta, you can join
her community: @thequeensheba on all social media to find out what Queen Sheba has coming up next!