Monifa has been writing since 2007, and is a published poet and prose writer. She lends a unique voice to her work, drawing inspiration from historical (and futuristic) perspectives to explore conteporary issues.
Publications
Dancer - Belly Dance Magazine, 2008
The Girl - Farmhouse Magazine, 2008 (online)
Ode to Television* - Bareback Magazine, 2008 (online)
Dirty/Happy Things - Self-published Chapbook, 2009
Looking** - Belly Dance Magazine, 2009
Simply Beautiful - Belly Dance Magazine, 2010
"Devil" - Elephantmen, Issue #33 - Image Comics, July 2011
"Damask Rose" - Elephantmen, Issue #34 - Image Comics, August 2011
Works in Progress
"Robots Dancing" - Combining a speculative future and current social and economic events, Robots Dancing will be a compilation of poems complete with detailed illustrations and simple sketches. With a variety of perspectives—young and old, human and android—this book represents different levels of the “human” condition.
"Love/Sick/Blood/Moan" - Fifty poems of tears and obsession, sex and passion, dirt and poison—all the emotions and neer-do-wells that make love awful and great.
UPDATE - "Love Sick" will be a graphic novel! Now an imagery of words will meet imagery of the supernatural.
UPDATE - "Love Sick" will be a graphic novel! Now an imagery of words will meet imagery of the supernatural.
"Traders" - In this speculative (possibly dystopic) future, society is nearly perfect and every person has his place. But police officer, Atticus Rowe, doesn't feel complete. When he investigates the meanings behind a rash of disturbing suicides, his true-believer worldview falls into a dangerous tailspin.
Unpublished Works
"Devil Don't be Teased" (Short Story, 2010-2011) - Supernatural coming of age story about Babygirl, a girl desperate to find the mother who abandoned her.
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* Full Title: "Ode to Television, Instant Messenger, & to a Man I've never met before" under pseudonym Selome de Carr
** Full Title: Looking into my Living Room Mirror
