About
Neysa King first gained a reading audience in the early 2000s writing about local food and young farmers with her blog Dissertation to Dirt, which was picked up by Whole Foods for their web series Thrive.
In 2020, she entered into private coaching with the lauded poet Roger Reeves and has since published two poetry chapbooks: Rainbow Body and My Heart Points Back. She has performed poems from Rainbow Body at numerous venues around Miami, created a short film from her work, and released a spoken word album.
Her multi-genre writing has been published by The Common, O Miami, South Florida Poetry Journal and others. She is a three-time recipient of a staff scholarship to Bread Loaf Writers Conference.
Dedicated to creating community around writing, she was the original co-founder of Miami Poetry Club and is the founder of Heart-Centered Writing, her writing coaching venture.
She is currently earning her MFA in fiction at Warren Wilson College and has just completed her first novel. She lives in Miami Beach.