Nzzy: Poet, Teaching Artist, Filmmaker

Ninel Nekay (preferably known as Nzzy) is a second-generation Jamaican-American Southerner and interdisciplinary cultural worker whose art demonstrates the stifled desires and salvation of Black non-men in the American South. As a poet, filmmaker, teaching artist, theorist, and practitioner of the philosophies she depicts within her portfolio, she seeks to entice fellow worldbuilders to reimagine their pursue agency and their own utopias. As Atlanta's former Youth Poet Laureate, previous National Black Arts Festival Fellow, Alternate Roots grantee, We Are Family Youth To The Front Fund recipient, and Next Doc Film Fellow, Color Congress intern, Nzzy has been active in arts and culture for nearly a decade. Her craft has been recognized by artists such as Nile Rodgers, Pearl Cleage, and Julie Lythcott-Haims.

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