Wanda Coleman

Wanda Coleman—poet, storyteller and journalist—was born and raised in South Central Los Angeles. Coleman was awarded the prestigious 1999 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for "Bathwater Wine" from the American Academy of Poets, becoming the first African-American woman to ever win the prize, and was a bronze-medal finalist for the 2001 National Book Award for Poetry for "Mercurochrome." "Wicked Enchantment: Selected Poems" is the first new collection of her work since her death in 2013.