Akilah Oliver is the author of the she said dialogues: flesh memory (Smokeproof/Erudite Fangs, 1999), a book of experimental prose poetry that has been honored by the PEN American Center’s “Open Book” program (April, 2000). Her chapbook/CD is entitled An Arriving Guard of Angels, Thusly Coming to Greet (Farfalla Press, 2004).