Keisha Bush, MFA

Keisha Bush is the Assistant Director of Communications for the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights. She has more than twenty years of experience in communications and marketing in both the private and nonprofit sector. She is an adjunct faculty member at New Jersey City University where she teaches English and literature courses, and she teaches writing courses at The Center For Fiction.

Keisha is the author of No Heaven For Good Boys (Random House), a New York Times Editors’ Choice, and the children’s multicultural reader My Family Tree published with Scholastic.

She has a Bachelor of Science in business from Bentley University, an MFA in creative writing from The New School, and is currently pursuing a Master of Theological Studies degree at Harvard Divinity School.

She has received fellowships from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Workspace Residency, the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Moulin à Nef, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Vermont Studio Center. Her writing and essays have appeared in The New York Times, Lion’s Roar Magazine, Literary Hub, The Rumpus, and Electric Literature.