Joselia Rebekah Hughes is a Mad, neurodivergent, and chronically ill
Afro-Caribbean writer, access worker, artist, and educator based in the Bronx. She lives with Sickle Cell Disease. She is a poetry editor at Apogee Journal.
Joselia’s work interrogates debility, (de)capacitation, play, experiences of pain, and rhetorics of access. Joselia’s poetry has been nominated for Best of Net and her writing been published in Apogee Journal, Massachusetts Review, The Poetry Project, Split This Rock, Blackflash Magazine, and elsewhere.
[Image Description: Bust of Black woman in black circle frames and white ribbed tank top. She poses with her head tilted to the side and her hands pressed together, as if in a small prayer. She also wears a red headscarf with a bow tied to the front. Bright light illuminates her face and hands. Behind her is a white wall with two pieces of art: a blue, black and white abstract painting and an Ernie Barnes print of three long limbed girls playing double dutch.
Photo provided by artist.]
