Sakena is a writer based in Pittsburgh, PA.
Sakena Jwan Washington is a Pittsburgh boomeranger, creative nonfiction writer, and the 2024-25 Emerging Black Writer in Residence at Chatham University. This year she is the guest editor of The Fourth River’s weekly online publication, Tributaries. Her work has appeared in Bellevue Literary Review, Huffington Post, Jellyfish Review and others. In 2021, her flash essay, "The Blood Remains." was nominated for the 2021 Best of the Net anthology. She is also one of five Pittsburgh-based storytellers who documented the public art project, "Art in Parks" in the city's five Allegheny Regional Asset District (RAD) parks. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University, Los Angeles.
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