Venus Selenite is a writer, performance poet, social critic, and culture worker from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, currently based in Washington, D.C. She is a Black, queer, non-binary trans woman.

She has been honing her craft of performance and language for over ten years, beginning on Baton Rouge’s youth poetry circuit. Venus’s work centers experiences of intersectionality, identity, liberation, joy, and suffering, intending to uplift and control narratives of trans and queer people of color. In 2015, she worked for the National Center of Transgender Equality to perform outreach and communications for the recently released U.S. Trans Survey. A contributor to BlaQueerFlow and Coming of Faith, she has performed at the Kennedy Center, Anacostia Playhouse, NYU-Washington DC, and Busboys & Poets.

She is currently working on a book of poems, a novella, a body of criticism and personal memoir, and preparing to study for her B.A. in English at the University of Maryland University College. Her first project, a spoken word release, For Sinners Saved By Voodoo Queens, is available at Bandcamp.

Venus is available for performances and speaking engagements at open mic readings, poetry slams, universities, conferences, and other events. She also curates and facilitates workshops on Black queerness, sexuality, consent, and poetry writing. For the latter, she centers poems and text from queer and trans poets.

For booking inquiries, click the "hire me" button or write to venusselenite at gmail.com. To financially support Venus, visit youcaring.com/supportvenus.