Sheila Gaskins is a Teaching Artist, Activist, Playwright, Stand-Up Comic, Arts. Advocate, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Facilitator, and Healer. She is a proud native of Baltimore, Maryland.

She is the author of her first book of poetry and prose, A Whistling Girl and a Crowing Hen Never Comes to a Very Good End and Other Things My Mama Said.

In 2022, Gaskins was the recipient of a The Grit Fund grant.  She was awarded a… more