Brackish Pond Literary Collective
History | Literature | Craft
Brackish Pond Literary Collective
History | Literature | Craft
Related By Herself.
Yesha Townsend
Yesha Townsend
Yesha Townsend
Yesha - pronounced eye-sha – is a Bermudian writer. She received her B.M. in music composition and an M.A. in creative writing at Goldsmiths, University of London. In Fall 2020, she began lecturing in the English Department at Bermuda College, teaching Freshman Composition and Studies in Bermudian and Caribbean Literature. She has served as the mentor and coach for the Bermuda National Youth Poetry Slam Team by way of The Chewstick Foundation’s youth poetry program ‘Break the Chains.’ Her work has been published in The Bermudian Magazine, BerMemes, the Bermuda Anthology of Memoir & Creative Non-Fiction and Poui: Cave Hill Journal of Creative Writing. She has performed as a rapper, poet & prose writer; notably at TEDxBermuda 2015, the Women of the World Poetry Slam in Brooklyn, NY 2016 and LeroyFest 2015 & 2016. She’s in a band called DONNA.
Her writing explores queerness through the lens of the black Caribbean experience. She writes of home, of hurricanes, of Bermudian history, mythology and folklore, and curates a space for others to do the same at Still Vexed (www.stillvexed.com).
Kristin White
Yesha Townsend
Yesha Townsend
Kristin has been an entrepreneur for over 15 years in Bermuda. Her retail store Long Story Short. (www.longstoryshort.life) features gifts and books by Black and female authors and artisans, and from here, she offers top-rated history tours of St. George’s, that have been featured in Afar Magazine, Travel + Leisure, USA Today, and Coastal Living. Thousands of people have taken a tour with Kristin, from local leaders and educators to international influences and celebrities. In addition to her tours, she curates unique Bermuda itineraries and began hosting group trips to the island in 2019.
An activist and writer, she is a founding member of Social Justice Bermuda, a newly formed collective inspired by the Global Black Lives Matter movement and campaigning for radical reform. As a popular blogger (www.kristindotcom.com) and influencer, her posts on women’s rights, racial inequality and community development are widely shared, and she won the Bermudian Magazine’s Best of Bermuda Award for Best Blogger in 2018 and 2020. Her writing has been published in Elle Canada, Destination Bermuda, Experience Bermuda, Bermuda Dot Com, Bermynet, The Royal Gazette and Toronto Star newspaper.
Kristin is a wife, mother, best friend to her pup Brandi, kick ass home cook, and a hell of a Bloody Mary maker. Elizabeth Gilbert called her ‘a piece of living starlight.’