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About

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Nia Pearl is an award-winning poet, writer, environmental justice advocate working at the intersection of art, activism, and public engagement. She is an established host and event curator passionate about creating participatory spaces for creative expression and literary dialogue.

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Nia’s writing has been published in Radicle magazine, Meridians journal, The Town: An Anthology of Oakland Poets, and Painting the Streets: Oakland Uprising in the Time of Rebellion. She is one of the recipients of the 2023 Nomadic Press/San Francisco Foundation Literary Awards. 

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She received her B.A. in Environmental Analysis: Race, Class, Gender, and the Environment from Pomona College. She is born and based in the Bay Area.​

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MoAD is rich in art, culture and inspiration

KTVU Channel 2

2023

Summer of 2020 captured in 'Painting the Streets: Oakland in the Time of Rebellion'

Black Renaissance

2022

CALIBA Creates Community for BIPOC Bookstores

Publishers Weekly

2021

Celebrating Black voices: Here's a look back at Dr. Maya Angelou's Bay Area connection, legacy

ABC 7 News

2021

Poets of Color Podcast Ep. 18 with Nia McAllister 

Poets of Color Podcast 

2019

Press

© 2021 by Nia McAllister

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