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PRAISE FOR KEEP A'LIVIN'

The book is a timely addition to the literary canon, providing a portal through which we are brought to our knees by what is so clearly wrong and not-so-clearly right about the story that is America.

—Paula Coomer, author of Dove Creek and Somebody Should Have Scolded the Girl

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Not since THE COLOR PURPLE has a book come along that will open the minds and hearts of all who read it. If you were alive in the last century, and even if you didn't arrive until this century, this story will fill a major gap in your understanding of American history. They sure as hell didn't teach it to us in school, but some of us lived it. Kathya Alexander's writing is brilliant, evocative, and this is a book students of literature will be studying for a long, long time. Think Zora Neale Hurston. Think Toni Morrison. Think bell hooks. 

Paula Coomer, Author of Somebody Should Have Scolded The Girl



2025   CityArtist Award - Seattle Office of Arts and Culture

2025   Hope Corps Award - City of Seattle

2024  Recreation4All Award - Seattle Parks and Recreation

The Write To Breathe Summer Youth Theater 

2024  Artist Trust Endurance Grant
2024  4Culture Cultural Producers Recovery Fund

2023  CityArtist Award - Seattle Office of Arts and Culture 

The Negro Passion Play 

2023  Recreation4All Award - Seattle Parks and Recreation

The Write To Breathe Summer Youth Theater 

2023  Creative Residency Fellowship - Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and  Sciences - The Negro Passion Play

2023  Artist Trust Endurance Grant 

2022  Artists at the Center Award - Seattle Office of Arts and Culture

Black To My Roots

2022  Arts Project Individuals Funding Award - 4Culture

The Negro Passion Play

2022  Arts In Parks Award - Seattle Office of Arts and Culture

The Negro Passion Play

2022  Welcome Back Seattle Award - Seattle Parks and Recreation

The Write To Breathe Summer Youth Theater 

2022  Artist Trust Endurance Grant

2021   Welcome Back Seattle Award - Seattle Parks and Recreation

The Write To Breathe Summer Youth Theater 

2021   Grant For Artists Progress Award - Artist Trust

2020  Recreation For All Award - Seattle Parks and Recreation

The Write To Breathe Summer Youth Theater Workshop 

2018  Jack Straw Artist Support Program Award

Angel In The Outhouse

2017  Arts Projects Award - 4Culture

Black D*ck Matters

2014  Work Readiness Arts Program Award - Office of Arts and Culture

Think! Before You Do

2014  Youth Arts Award - Office of Arts and Culture

Hands Up! Don’t Shoot!

2013  CityArtist Award - Office of Arts and Culture

2013  Seattle Theater Group (STG) – Night At The Neptune

David And Jonathan: A Modern Day Retelling of the Biblical Story

2007  Writer-in-Residence, Hedgebrook Women Writer’s Retreat

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2005  Freehold Theater Lab Diversity Scholarship 

2002  Fringe First Award for Black to My Roots: African American Tales from the Head and the Heart @ Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Scotland

Outstanding New Production and Innovation in Theater  







2024 POETS & WRITERS Get the Word Out Fiction COHORT

Get the Word Out was developed with funding from Leonard and Louise Riggio, with additional support from Macmillan Publishers.

Learn more about the program at

                Poets & Writers.


ABOUT ANGEL IN THE OUTHOUSE


Kathya used nuanced humor and song to provide the audience with a glimpse into the first-hand experiences of normal people living through and being a part of the Civil Rights Movement. Her ability to adapt her stories to a classroom setting was also remarkable; she provided a self-contained history and social justice lesson while spinning a tale that captivated adults and children alike. – Kyle, Whitman College  


Thank you for sharing your stories with us. They were amazing! I really learned a lot about the Civil Rights Movement. I also wish I had your writing skills. If I did I’d be famous! – Joshua, 6th grader  


Thank you so much for telling us your storys! I really enjoyed how you elaborated on your story. I also liked how you showed us pictures of what you were talking about. My favorite was the picture of what your washer looked like. Another thing I liked was how your story had a moral that was like listen to your mom. Thanks again!!! – Caroline, 5th grader


Thank you for telling us a story about what it was like to be Black during the Civil Rights Movement. It answered a lot of questions that I had. – Tate, 2nd grader  

I really enjoyed listening to your story. One of my favorite parts was how you didn’t understand why you were treated so poorly by whites. I especially liked your style of storytelling. It was very active. You always kept me laughing. – Pax, middle school   

KEEP A'LIVIN' RELEASED IN 2024 BY AUNT LUTE BOOKS

POETS & WRITERS

ANNOUNCING THE POETS & WRITERS’ 2023 GET THE WORD OUT DEBUT FICTION COHORT

Poets & Writers has announced the 2023 fiction cohort for Get the Word Out, a publicity incubator for early-career writers. The program gives selected writers an opportunity to work with an experienced book publicist who will guide them in leveraging the opportunity presented by their first major book publication.

Each of the ten writers selected has a book forthcoming in 2024. They are:

  • Alisa Alering, Smothermoss (Tin House Books, July 16, 2024)
  • Bruna Dantas Lobato, Blue Light Hours (Grove Atlantic, October 15, 2024)
  • Christina Cooke, Broughtupsy (Catapult, January 23, 2024)
  • Esinam Bediako, Blood on the Brain (Red Hen Press, November 2024)
  • Jessie Marshall, Women! In! Peril! (Bloomsbury, April 2, 2024)
  • Kathya Alexander, Keep A’Livin’ (Aunt Lute Books, Spring 2024)
  • Lena Valencia, Mystery Lights (Tin House Books, August 6, 2024)
  • Lynn Stansbury, Not All Dead Together (Chin Music Press, October 2024)
  • Marissa Higgins, A Good Happy Girl (Catapult, April 2, 2024)
  • Parul Kapur, Inside the Mirror (University of Nebraska Press, March 1, 2024)


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