Ebony Payne-English is a poet, lyricist, playwright, and educator
Ebony Payne-English, born July 30,1984, is a poet, lyricist, playwright, and educator from Duval County. She is the first woman to establish her own chapter of the international poetry organization Black on Black Rhyme. Ebony is the 2017 Cultural Council ofGreaterJacksonville’s Emerging Artist and recipient of the Spoken Word Gala’s 2017 William Bell Humanitarian Award. As of 2021, Ebony serves as Executive Director of The Performers Academy, a 501(c)(3) arts education organization, and is a founding member of the Board of Directors for Southern Fried Poetry, Inc. which produces the largest adult regional poetry slam in the nation.
Ebony is author of the graphic novel The Random Happenings as well as an award-winning poetry collection, Secrets of Ma’at. Ebony's critically acclaimed play, On Purpose, was her debut as an American playwright and was soon followed by her five-play series, The Goddess Experience.
Ebony considers Zora Neale Hurston an icon and personal muse and is honored to be memorialized in her youth next to such an influential artist.
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