Yesha Townsend is a Bermudian writer. She received her B.M. in music composition and an MA in creative writing at Goldsmiths, University of London. She has served as the mentor and coach for the Bermuda National Youth Poetry Slam Team by way of The Chewstick Foundation’s youth
poetry program ‘Break the Chains.’ Her work has been published in The Bermudian Magazine, BerMemes, the Bermuda Anthology of Memoir & Creative Non-Fiction and Poui: Cave Hill Journal of Creative Writing. She has performed as a rapper, poet & prose writer; notably at TEDxBermuda 2015, and the Women of the World Poetry Slam in Brooklyn, NY 2016 and LeroyFest 2015 & 2016. She’s in a band called DONNA. Her writing explores queerness through the lens of the black Caribbean experience, she writes of home, of hurricanes, of Bermudian history, mythology and folklore.