"My bones have absorbed these sounds, move to these sounds, and rest in these sounds."

E.J. Antonio received fellowships in Poetry from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Hurston/Wright Foundation, and the Cave Canem Foundation. She has appeared as a featured reader and performer at venues in the NY tri-state area, a including Why Not Jazz Room; Arts Westchester; The Stone; the Hobart Festival of Women Writers, and Langston Hughes House. Her work has been published in various journals, magazines, and anthologies, including: the Encyclopedia Project, African Voices Literary Magazine; Black Renaissance Noire; The Mom Egg, and Killens Review of Arts & Letters. E.J. is the author of two chapbooks: Every Child Knows, Premier Poets Chapbook Series 2007 and Solstice, Red Glass Books, 2013. Her solo jazzoetry cd Rituals in the marrow: Recipe for a jam session was released in the fall of 2010. E.J. is a founding member of the Jazz & Poetry Choir Collective, which released its debut cd We Were Here in spring 2020, and a founding Board Member of One Breath Rising.