Christa Bell is an award-winning feminist folk poet, performance artist, and cultural activist from Seattle, Washington. A National Poetry Slam (NPS) Champion, National Public Radio alumna and internationally touring artist Bell’s work is crafted by combining the oral poetic and storytelling traditions of the Classical Black American Church with
rhythmic elements of Hip-Hop and the body-centered awareness and transformative mission of women’s sacred ritual. Her work is an act of resistance towards the international corporately-sanctioned attack on women
in mainstream hip-hop and mass media. As a spoken-word artist, poet and monologist Bell has created a body of
work that is both a cultural insurgency and spiritual-political revival in celebration of the gospel according to women.

A graduate of San Francisco State University with a degree in Creative Writing, Bell has studied in France and lived in east Africa. She is the author of three collections of poetry, two spoken word CD’s and the creatrix of the one-woman phenomenon, “CoochieMagik: A SpokenWord Musical Comedy” directed by acclaimed performance maverik Baraka de Soleil. Christa is
currently an artist-in-residence with Seatttle Arts and Lectures and a core member of the Brooklyn, NY based performance arts collective, D UNDERBELLY. She has shared stages with political and creative luminiaries such as Angela Y. Davis, Saul Williams, Muta Baruka, Ursula Rucker, Bill Frisell and many others.