Phoenix Ríszing
Phoenix Ríszing is a multidisciplinary artist from The Bronx. She graduated from Marist College with a Bachelors in English Writing and is a Gates Millennium Scholar, U.S Fulbright Alumni, John Lewis Fellowship Alumni, and Dear Fellowship Alumni. In 2018, she taught Performing Arts in South Africa. In 2021, she was awarded the City Corps Artist Grant and in 2022, became a Bronx Council on the Arts BRIO award winner for Performing Arts, and was selected for the Writers’ Access Support Staff Training Program sponsored by The Writers Guild Foundation. Phoenix performed professionally at Signature Theater Company and X|X Theater Company. She participated in Lyrical Faith’s Real Life Writers Workshop and the Frost Place Conference on Poetry. Phoenix is a self-published author of ‘The Ghetto Youth Handbook.”