Christell Victoria Roach “Ninth Street, My Street”

Christell Victoria Roach is a doctoral student in the English Literature and Creative Writing PhD program at Florida State University. She is a Miami writer using poetry to build monuments to Blackness, Blueswomen, and the Southern Tropics. Christell is an archival writer producing creative work and theory surrounding her relationship to place, people, and living history. As a descendent of the TransAtlantic Slave trade, of Black Miami, and the Caribbean — her work is a love offering to those who survived so she could live.