About
About the Author
Dr. Keena Day is an educator, writer and poet. She studied fiction writing, Black Literature, and became a Harlem Renaissance scholar while an English graduate student at Tennessee State University and at Fisk University. Keena was a college writing professor teaching students to write until she transitioned to editorial writing and journalism in 2017. She has written for several media outlets such as the Tennessee Tribune, Boardhawk, and My Black Colorado Magazine
Dr. Day is the author of the novel Colors of My Boudoir (Second Edition, 2025), and AFROdisiacs (Second Edition, 2025) which is a collection of short fiction, essays, and poems celebrating the power of Black love. Both books have been showcased at various book events including at Black Writers on Tour, The Queen City Book Fair, Black Writer’s Weekend, The National Black Book Fair, and Detroit Book City Fair. Keena has served as a contributing author for several best selling books: The HBCU Experience: Band Alumni Edition, and two Black Studies collegiate textbooks Africana Paradigms, Practices, and Literary Texts and Elevating Humanity via Africana Womanism with Clenora Hudson-Weems. She has been a frequent guest on podcasts and radio shows including Google Education, EdCuration, the Scenario Radio Show, The Shop Talk Podcast, The Surround Sound Podcast, and Teach Colorado and has been a speaker at conferences focused on Black women’s empowerment, education, and literacy instruction.
she is the CEO of the publishing imprint From the Dark Tower Publishing and works with writers and artists to showcase their work and produce high quality pieces sharing their own perspectives through story telling and other mediums as independent artists. Dr. Day has performed her poetry since 2006 and continues to perform poetry in various cities. A native of Detroit, she currently resides in Denver, CO and Cleveland, OH.