MEET MIATTA

Miatta Harris is a Poet, Author and Educator. She’s always had a passion for working with children. She enjoys helping scholars attain their goals and empowering them to reach their full potential.  In her first teaching job, she was a Head Start Teacher. Surrounded by emergent literacy, this is where her creative writing skills began. She often fosters creativity with her students in mind.

Faced with many trials and obstacles, writing became Miatta’s foremost outlet. She writes her poems from a standpoint of strength, resilience, peace, perseverance, and self-love. Writing, praying, and the arts have been instrumental in her healing process for the challenges  she has encountered in her evolution as a woman. Her story is one of advocacy for looking inward and upward for fulfillment.

She is the author of a children’s book entitled, “Dede, the Baby Circus Elephant.” She often performs her poems at various venues throughout the Baltimore and Washington, DC Metropolitan areas. 

Miatta holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and a Master of Arts in Teaching. She is a resident of Maryland.