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Jessica Thorpe is an alumnus of Lincoln University

in Pennsylvania, the country's oldest HBCU.  

In 1974 she became the school's first female

poet laureate and captured first prize in a

poetry competition sponsored and judged by Gwendolyn Brooks.  Her feature and fiction

writing has appeared in Essence Magazine,

The Philadelphia Tribune, The Philadelphia

Inquirer, The Caribbean Writer>, The Virgin

Islands Daily News, Artvoice andThe Buffalo

News>, among other publications.

client list
  • African American Cultural Center 

  • University at Buffalo School of Pharmacy

                        and Pharmaceutical Sciences

  • Jewish Family Service of Buffalo & Erie County

  • Motherland Connextions

  • Black Theatre Troupe

  • Green Hill Publishing 

  • Network of Religious Communities 

  • Black Chamber of Commerce of Western New York

  • Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy

  • Commission for Pan African Affairs (Barbados)

  • Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo

  • Cooper Palette and Pen 

  • Empowerment Resource Center (Philadelphia)

  • Erie Niagara Area Health Education Center

  • Jewish Cemetery Corporation 

  • Just Buffalo Literary Center

  • Leah House, Inc.  (Brooklyn)

  • Mary B. Talbert Civic and Cultural Club

  • Ontario House Jazz Reunion

  • The Collective Buffalo

  • University of the Virgin Islands

  • Utopiann Euphoria

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