Tifara Brown is a writer, performance poet, oral historian, and activist from Southern Georgia. Rooted in the Black American South, her work explores cultural preservation, art activism, and ancestral memory through language and story.

She began as a saxophonist and poet, sharing original work publicly in 2013 while studying at the University of Georgia, where she also presented a TEDx talk on the healing power of poetry. A research fellowship took her to Ghana’s Kofi Annan Peacekeeping and Training Centre, where she trained military personnel in gender policy and peacebuilding and studied oral traditions with griots.

In 2020, she self-published Honeysuckle: Poems and Stories from a Black Southerner, a poetic memoir dedicated to an ancestor lost to racial violence. The book has been used domestically and internationally in reconciliation efforts, creative writing workshops, and youth mentorship programs.

Tifara has conducted seminars promoting justice and conflict resolution for students in Northern Ireland since 2018, teaching students how to transcribe their own stories and organize reconciliatory conversations between opposing religious factions in the manner of the modern civil rights movement in the States.

She trains these young people in peacebuilding through storytelling with the goal of the reduction of violence in collaboration with the Northern Ireland Alternatives (NIA) Restorative Justice Program and the Star Neighborhood Centre in Belfast. Through this collaboration, these students have presented their poems at international youth conferences for peace across Europe.

She is the librettist of Lalovavi, the debut opera commissioned by Cincinnati Opera as part of The Black Opera Project, with support from the Mellon Foundation. Set to premiere in 2026, Lalovavi is the first media production to feature Tut, a historic Black American code language.

Tifara is a successfully published poet, and you can read her poetry at www.tifarabrown.com.