Welcome to CleisAbeni.com. 

Warm greetings to you! I am humbled by your visit to my website. For over 30 years, I have worked as a professional writer, investigative journalist, multifaceted editor (both freelance and on-staff), and creative writer. I was the staff copyeditor for the Baltimore Alternative; a staff writer and editor for the Institute for Survey Research; and a reporter for the Baltimore City Paper and the Philadelphia City Paper.

​My journalism, essays, poems, and fiction have also appeared in 30-plus news outlets, literary magazines and journals since 1988 like Reimagining Magazine; Prick of the Spindle; Capitol Black Arts Bulletin; Mountain Record: The Zen Practitioner's Journal; Columbus Alive; Transfaith; Dance Research Journal; Dance Magazine; Dance View; Ploughshares; Good Foot Magazine; Fence Magazine; Identity Principle; Locus; Press Board Press Magazine; Spoon; Ploughshares; The New Baltimore Visitor; Urbanite; The Formalist; The James White Review; Journal for the Anthropological Study of Human Movement; Hook; The Washington Review; Tomorrow Speculative Fiction Magazine; and more. 

​I am so humbled and grateful to be the new, in-house editor for American Editions, a progressive book arts publishing company. Feel free to visit my other website: www.treeturtle.com.

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