Biography
Sheree L. Greer (she/her) is a Black lesbian writer and artist born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. A memoirist, poet, fiction and nonfiction writer, her work explores sexuality, race, class, family, radical self-love, and how places can shape and shift identities. Her work has been published online and in print, at the Massachusetts Review, The Rumpus, Fourth Genre, Obsidian, Burrow Press Review, and elsewhere. In 2014, she founded Kitchen Table Literary Arts to showcase and support the work of women and femme-identified nonbinary writers and poets of the global majority.
Greer is a VONA/VOICES alum, Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice grantee, Yaddo fellow, Ragdale Artist House Rubin fellow, and upcoming Lost and Found Lab fellow. Her essay, “Bars,” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and notably named in Best American Essays 2019, and her essay, “If You Scared Say You Scared,” published in Bellevue Literary Review, earned a Kay W. Levin Award for Short Nonfiction. In 2025, she was awarded a Barbara Deming Memorial Fund Money for Women grant. A frequent collaborator with the 2nd Story Theatre Collective and teaching artist for StoryStudio in Chicago and The Porch in Nashville, Greer is a founding member of the southern arts collective The Rubber Bands. At work on her memoir-in-essays, Greer currently lives in Tampa, Florida, with her wife and daughter.
