Shante´ Cozier is an artist who believes in the power of stories.  She received a B.S. in Visual Arts from SUNY New Paltz where she concentrated in Photography and minored in Black Studies.  She also received her MFA in Creative Writing from the City College of New York, where she focused on the art of short stories and prose poetry.  She is an alum of the 2015 USA Callaloo Writing Workshop at Brown University.  As well, she has taken writing workshops at New York University.  She has also presented her work at readings and conferences including Medgar Ever’s Black Writers Conference.  Cozier was a New York Writers Coalition workshop facilitator for 8 years where she led manuscript critique workshops for writers all over the country.  She is the winner of the 2015 ND/SA Chapbook prize for her first chapbook of poetry entitled Sometimes Angels.  She is currently finishing her first full-length collection of short stories, entitled The Hardest Thing is To Know. Cozier is also a professional exhibitions project manager with 14 years of experience in libraries and museums. She currently lives in NYC with her family, and takes time to quilt in her home studio whenever she has the time.